Halford Fairchild

Halford H. Fairchild
Born	(1949-03-16) March 16, 1949
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of California, Los Angeles, California State University, Los Angeles, University of Michigan
Spouse	Heather F. Fairchild
Scientific career
Fields	Psychology
Institutions	Pitzer College, University of California, Los Angeles, California State University, Los Angeles
Thesis	An ecological analysis of interracial attitudes and behaviors in american high schools (1977)
Doctoral advisor	Patricia Gurin and James S. Jackson

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).

External links

• The Association of Black Psychologists
• The Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies
• Psych Discourse
• Books by Halford Fairchild at Amazon.com
• Halford Fairchild publications indexed by Google Scholar