About: Halford Fairchild

Halford Hosoi Fairchild (born March 16, 1949) is a Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Black Studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. He was the editor of Psych Discourse: The Monthly Newsjournal of The Association of Black Psychologists from 1991 until 2014. He is a former president of the Association of Black Psychologists and Chairman of the Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies at the Claremont Colleges. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1977. Among many accomplishments, Professor Fairchild published a series of papers that challenged the practice of scientific racism within psychology (e.g., Fairchild, 1991; Fairchild, Yee, Wyatt, & Weizmann, 1995; Yee, Fairchild, Weizmann, & Wyatt, 1993).