Frances Cress Welsing

Frances Cress Welsing
Welsing receiving Community Award at National Black LUV Festival on September 21, 2008
Born
Frances Luella Cress

(1935-03-18)March 18, 1935
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
DiedJanuary 2, 2016(2016-01-02) (aged 80)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Alma materAntioch College (B.S.),
Howard University (M.D.)
OccupationPhysician
Known forThe Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors (1991)

Frances Luella Welsing (née Cress; March 18, 1935 – January 2, 2016) was an American psychiatrist and well-known proponent of the black supremacist melanin theory.[1][2][3]: 3 [4]: 80  Her 1970 essay, The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy),[5] offered her interpretation of what she described as the origins of white supremacy culture.

She was the author of The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors (1991).[6]

  1. ^ Newkirk, Pamela (September 2002). Within the Veil: Black Journalists, White Media. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-5800-7.
  2. ^ "Controversial Black Doctor Provokes Reporters' Reactions - The Washington Post". The Washington Post.
  3. ^ Newkirk, Pamela (September 2002). Within the Veil: Black Journalists, White Media. NYU Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-8147-5800-7. Retrieved December 31, 2020.
  4. ^ Walker, Clarence E. (June 14, 2001). We Can't Go Home Again: An Argument About Afrocentrism. Oxford University Press. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-19-535730-1. Retrieved December 31, 2020.
  5. ^ Welsing, Frances Cress (May 1, 1974). "The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation". The Black Scholar. 5 (8): 32–40. doi:10.1080/00064246.1974.11431416. ISSN 0006-4246.
  6. ^ Jaynes, Gerald D. (2005). Encyclopedia of African American society, Volume 1. Sage. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-7619-2764-8.