ABSTRACT
Author persuaded that the choices he have made about being a research psychologist, pursuing an academic career in administration, and providing community service are deeply rooted in my family environment and inextricably related to the events visited upon me by the larger US society. His mother was an educator as were all of her family, and my father was a barber. He conducted research using the Wisconsin General Test Apparatus to study the concept of upside-downness in monkeys. The majority of the graduates have assumed professional and leadership positions within their respective fields. His scholarship on prejudice and racism has been fueled by my personal experience, but more importantly it has been verified and sustained by colleagues who have had the insight to understand the relationship between scholarship, policymaking, and life. As a beginning graduate student at Howard University in the late 1950s, he conducted research using the Wisconsin General Test Apparatus to study the concept of upside-downness in monkeys.
