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About the Authors

Thema Bryant-Davis earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from Duke
University and completed her postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical Center. She
is an assistant professor of counseling at California State University, Long Beach.
She is author of Thriving in the Wake of Trauma: A Multi-Cultural Guide. She assisted
in the drafting of APAs first resolution against racism and lectures nationally and
internationally on the trauma of racism.
Robert T. Carter is professor of psychology and education in the Department of
Counseling and Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University. His
research and scholarship focuses on issues of race and culture. He is internationally
known for his work on White and Black racial identity. He has applied analyses of
race, racial identity, and culture to psychotherapy process and outcome, legal issues,
organizational development, health disparities, disaster mental health and preparedness, and educational equity. He has published more than 75 journal articles and
book chapters, and he has authored or edited seven books. His most notable works
are The Influence of Race and Racial Identity in the Psychotherapy Process (1995) and
Racial Identity Theory: Applications to Individual, Group, and Organizational
Interventions (with Thompson, 1997). Most recently, he edited the two-volume reference
set titled Handbook of Racial-Cultural Psychology and Counseling: Theory and
Research (Vol. 1) and Training and Practice (Vol. 2; 2005). His most recent area of
inquiry is on the stressful and potentially traumatic effects of racial discrimination.
He was an Ira Glasser Racial Justice Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union,
exploring the legal implications of racial discrimination and psychological injury. He
also serves as the editor of the American Psychological Associations Society of
Counseling Psychology Journal, The Counseling Psychologist. He is a fellow in the
American Psychological Association (Divisions 17 and 45) and has received several
national awards. He also works as an expert witness and legal and organizational
consultant.
Joe R. Feagin (PhD, Harvard University) is the Ella C. McFadden Professor of
Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University. His primary research interests concern the
development and structure of racial and gender prejudice and discrimination, especially institutional and systemic discrimination. Among his 48 books are Systemic
Racism (2006), Social Problems: A Power-Conflict Perspective (6th ed., 2006),
Racist America (2000), The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism (with
D. Van Ausdale; 2001), Racial and Ethnic Relations (with C. Feagin; 7th ed., 2003),
The Many Costs of Racism (with K. McKinney; 2003); White Men on Race (with
E. OBrien; 2003), and Black in Blue: African-American Police Officers and Racism
(with K. Bolton; 2004). He is currently working on a book dealing with how Whites
act differently in public and in private in regard to racial issues, to be published in
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fall 2006. His books have won numerous national and professional association
prizes, and his book, Ghetto Revolts (1973), was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He
is also author of more than 180 research articles on racial, gender, and urban issues.
He is the 2006 recipient of a Harvard Alumni (HDS) Association lifetime achievement award and was the 1999-2000 president of the American Sociological
Association.
Ezra E. H. Griffith is professor of psychiatry and of African American studies at
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. He is also deputy chairman of the
Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine. He is currently editor of
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, and in 2005 he was
the winner of that academys Seymour Pollack Award.
Suzette L. Speight is an associate professor of counseling psychology in the School
of Education at Loyola University Chicago. She received her PhD in counseling
psychology from Ohio State University in 1990. Her research and scholarly interests include the psychology of oppression, mental health and African American
women, multicultural competence, and suicide in the African American community.
Ruth Thompson-Miller is a PhD student and the research assistant of Joe R.
Feagin at Texas A&M University. She graduated summa cum laude from the
University of Florida, where she was also a McNair Scholar. Her primary research
interests are race, ethnicity, and social psychology. She has focused on the experiences of African Americans who lived during the era of legal segregation. She is
currently conducting research in South Africa.

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