Raymond A. Winbush
is the
Benjamin Hooks Professor of Social Justice at Fisk University and Director
of the University’s Race Relations Institute. He is the former Assistant
Provost and Director of the Johnson Black Cultural Center at Vanderbilt
University.
A native of Cleveland Ohio, Dr. Winbush, is a product of public
school education, K through 12. In 1970, he graduated with honors in
psychology from Oakwood College in Huntsville Alabama, and during his
undergraduate education there, won scholarships to both Harvard and Yale
Universities. After graduation he won a fellowship to the University of
Chicago and received both his Masters and Ph.D. in psychology in 1973 and
1976 respectively.
From 1973 to 1980, Dr.
Winbush taught at Oakwood College and Alabama
A & M University in
Huntsville before coming to Vanderbilt University in the fall of that year.
At Vanderbilt he was Assistant Provost of the university, held an adjunct
professorship in the Department of Psychology and was Associate Professor of
Human Resource Development at Peabody College and.
His research interests
include:
-
infusing African American studies into school
curricula
-
African
American adolescent development
-
Black male and female relationships
-
the
influence of hip hop on contemporary American culture
Dr. Winbush is the author of
numerous articles on the "politics" of Afrocentricity and the
resistance it encounters among scholars who wish to maintain existing
intellectual paradigms.
Books authored and/or
edited Raymond A. Winbush:
A five-year $2.6 million grant from the Kellogg Foundation revitalized the
historic Race Relations Institute at Fisk University. The 32nd Institute was
held July 6-12, 1998 at Fisk with 250 attendees including:
-
Actor James Earl
Jones
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Daughter of
Richard Wright
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Daughter of
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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Son of Kwame Nkrumah
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Son of W. E. B. Du
Bois
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Son of Marcus Garvey
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Dr. John Hope
Franklin
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Congressman John Conyers
-
Rap star Chuck D and other members of the hip-hop
community
-
Psychiatrist Dr. Frances Cress
Welsing
The Race Relations Institute is the only institute of its kind
housed at an Historically Black College/University [HBCU].
Ray Winbush's consultations are
numerous:
His travels include Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, France,
England, Belgium, Honduras, Senegal, Cote D'Ivoire and Jamaica, where he
seeks to understand how African people have influenced world culture. He has
made appearances on the CBS Morning Show and Black Entertainment Television
[BET].
His hobbies include,
writing, jazz, rap music, Information Technology and photography and he is the proud father
of three (3) children: Omari Winbush, Sharifa Winbush and Faraji Winbush.
2007
March 16 - Louisville, KY
29th Annual National Conference On The Black Family in America
Panel: Solutions for Resolving Conflicts in BMBFRs:
BMBFR
Conference Paper
by Raymond A.
Winbush
Beloved
in Our Lives: Necessary Healing Between African Men and Women
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