Race and Excellence

Graduate of Harvard Medical School, president of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, founding national chair of the Black Psychiatrists of America: the list of Chester Pierce's accomplishments cement him as a luminary in the field-and that is before one considers how foundational his theories about racism as an environmental pollutant are to modern mental health. Reprinted with a new introduction, this collection of conversations between Ezra Griffith and Pierce sheds light on the man behindthe titles and theories--