Race & excellence
Subtitle: my dialogue with Chester Pierce
By: Ezra E.H. Griffith.
Contributors: Pierce, Chester M.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: Pierce, Chester M.; Pierce, Chester M. -- Interviews.; African American psychiatrists -- Biography.; Psychiatrists -- United States -- Biography.; African Americans -- Mental health.
Genres: Interviews.; Biography.
Other titles: Race and excellence
Description: In Race and Excellence, Ezra Griffith, also an African American professor of psychiatry, engages Pierce in a dialogue with the goal of clarifying the interconnection between the personal and the professional in the lives of both black scholars. The text melds the story of Pierce's life and his achievements, with particular attention to his theories about the predictable nature of racist behavior and the responses of oppressed groups.

Having earned his doctorate a generation after Pierce, Griffith approaches his conversation with Pierce as a face-to-face meeting between mentor and student.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.