Frances Cress Welsing
Frances Cress Welsing | |
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Welsing receiving the Community Award at National Black LUV Festival on September 21, 2008 | |
| Born | Frances Luella Cress March 18, 1935 |
| Died | January 2, 2016 (aged 80) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Alma mater | Antioch College (B.S.) Howard University (M.D.) |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Known for | The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors (1991) |
Frances Luella Cress Welsing (March 18, 1935 – January 2, 2016) was an American psychiatrist and well-known proponent of the pseudoscientific melanin theory.: 3 : 80 Her 1970 essay, The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy), 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).