James McCoy Jones is an African-American social psychologist and

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scholar. He is Trustees' Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Black American Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Diversity at the

University of Delaware The University of Delaware (colloquially UD or Delaware) is a public land-grant research university located in Newark, Delaware. UD is the largest university in Delaware. It offers three associate's programs, 148 bachelor's programs, 121 mas ...

. He is a past president of both the

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and the

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.He previously taught at

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and

Howard University Howard University (Howard) is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity" and accredited by the Middle States Commissi ...

before joining the University of Delaware. In 2011, he received the Outstanding Lifetime Contributions to Psychology Award from the

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. He retired from the University of Delaware in 2018, and gave a retirement lecture on diversity on April 16 of that year.

Selected publications

* ''Prejudice and Racism'' (1972, second edition in 1997) * ''The Psychology of Diversity: Beyond prejudice and racism'', with co-authors Jack Dovidio and Deborah Vietze, 2014.

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