Price M. Cobbs (1928–2018)
Autore di Black Rage
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Price Mashaw Cobbs was born in Los Angeles, California on November 2, 1928. He served in the Army from 1951 to 1952. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1954 and a medical degree from Meharry Medical College in 1958. After several residencies, he became an mostra altro assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of California's San Francisco Medical Center in 1963. He and Dr. William H. Grier opened a clinic in San Francisco in the mid-1960s and noticed patterns in the problems and experiences of their patients. This lead to the book Black Rage, which defined the anger felt by many black Americans and identified it as a legacy of slavery. They also wrote The Jesus Bag, which focused on the role of religion in shaping the black psyche. Cobbs other books included Cracking the Corporate Code: The Revealing Success Stories of 32 African-American Executives written with Judith L. Turnock and My American Life: From Rage to Entitlement. He became a consultant for companies and organizations seeking to become more diverse and develop executives of color. He died from heart and lung failure on June 25, 2018 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Cobbs, Price Mashaw
- Data di nascita
- 1928-11-02
- Data di morte
- 2018-06-25
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, USA
- Causa della morte
- heart and lung failure
- Luogo di residenza
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Istruzione
- Meharry Medical College (MD ∙ 1958)
University of California, Berkeley (BS ∙ 1954)
University of California, Los Angeles
Jefferson High School, Los Angeles - Attività lavorative
- psychiatrist
professor
diversity consultant
writer - Relazioni
- Grier, William H. (colleague)
- Organizzazioni
- African American Leadership Institute Anderson School of Business (UCLA)
NAACP
Executive Leadership Council
University of California’s San Francisco Medical Center
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A difficult, but worthy, read. Much bias in the information, but also good solid information.
The slave experience in America has profoundly influenced Black life through to the current day.
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Black Rage tells of the insidious effects of the heritage of slavery; describes love, marriage,
and the family; addresses the sexual myths and fears of blacks and whites; chronicles how the
schools fail the black child; examines mental illness among black people and the psychic stresses
engendered by discrimination; and, finally, focuses on the miasma of racial hatred that envelops this country,
why it exists, and what will surely happen if it is not soon dispelled
William Henry Grier (February 7, 1926 – September 3, 2015)
He attended Howard University but left after a year to the University of Michigan where he received
his bachelor of science degree (1945) and then his M.D.
He became a psychiatrist, and shortly thereafter, he was sent overseas as part of the Korean War
and contracted polio which left him with a permanent limp.
He first worked as a psychiatrist in Detroit before moving to San Francisco, where he met
Price M. Cobbs. Together, they published the book Black Rage in 1968.
Black Rage was a groundbreaking work on race and became required reading in college classes.
In 1971, they co-wrote another book about black churches called The Jesus Bag.
He was the chairman of the department of psychiatry at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee,
in the 1970s. He then had a psychiatric practice in San Diego until he retired in the 1990s
He is the father of David Alan Grier.
Price Mashaw Cobbs, M.D. (November 2, 1928 – June 25, 2018) was a psychiatrist, civil rights leader,
author and management consultant.
He published extensively about racism and created a clinical model called Ethnotherapy.
He was one of the founders of the African American Leadership Institute Anderson School of Business
at UCLA and a Life Member of the NAACP. He co-authored two books with William Grier,
Black Rage and The Jesus Bag and co-authored Cracking the Corporate Code with Judith L. Turnock.… (altro)