Back فرانسيس كريس ويلسينغ Arabic فرانسيس كريس ويلسينج ARZ Frances Cress Welsing Finnish Frances Cress Welsing French Frances Cress Welsing Portuguese Frances Cress Welsing SIMPLE Frances Cress Welsing Turkish Frances Cress Welsing Yoruba
Frances Cress Welsing | |
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 Welsing receiving Community Award at National Black LUV Festival on September 21, 2008 | |
| Born | Frances Luella Cress March 18, 1935 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| 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 Welsing (née Cress; March 18, 1935 – January 2, 2016) was an American psychiatrist and well-known proponent of the melanin theory.[1][2][3]: 3 [4]: 80 Her 1970 essay, The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy),[5] 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).[6]
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