Black Journal #324: Black Man/White Woman, Part I
Initial Broadcast Date: March 27, 1972
Black Journal #325: Black Man/White Woman, Part II
Initial Broadcast Date: April 3, 1972
30 minutes -- Color
A discussion of interracial marriage relationships, led by Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, a psychiatrist, who has written numerous articles on the subject. Since 1960, the number interracial marriages between Black men and white women has increased significantly while there has been a decline in the number of white men marrying Black women.
Part II
A black woman psychiatrist says the Vietnam War, a turbulent society and the fact that black men die earlier “from various causes than white men” has left many black women without black men.
That’s one observation from Dr. Frances Welsing of Howard University’s medical school made on the Black Journal program, “Black Man/White Woman, Part II.”
Joining Dr. Welsing on the program will be Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Poussaint is the Author of “Why Blacks Kill Blacks.”
Noting published statistics that show an increase in the number of interracial marriages between black men and white women, Dr. Welsing says the trend is producing a division between the black male and female that could lead to a form of genocide because it heightens the alienation between the two.
But the Harvard psychiatrist does not believe that great numbers of black men are taking white wives. Says Dr. Poussaint: “There’s only 43,000 black men/white women marriages (according to the US Census figures) and that’s a very tiny percentage. That means that only two percent of black men are married to white women.”
“Black Journal” is a production of WNET New York.
Executive producer: Tony Brown
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