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Aaronette M.White (1961-2012) is a Professor of Psychology known for her activism in feminism, racism and social injustice. Before her passing, white held the position of associate dean at University of California at Santa Cruz.

Biography
Aaronette M. White was a outspoken feminist psychologist born in 1961 in St.Louis, Missouri. Aaronette was one of five children. Aaronette mentioned how her up bringing and experiences through her childhood and traveling the world is one of the many reasons that made her more interested in the topic of feminism, racism, and social injustice.

White received her Bachelors Degree in Psychology from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1983. She attended graduate school at Washington University in St. Louis where she obtained her masters in clinical Psychology, 1984. During this time white had a mentor, Dr. Robert L, who was a notable African American. Dr. Robert L had helped White with the completion of her masters thesis. Later on, in 1988, White had received her doctorate in social-personality psychology at Washington University in St. Louis. White decided to pursue social work as a field of study prior to completing her PhD because she believed psychology primarily took a pathological view to issues of race and gender. Eventually, her decision to pursue a PhD in social psychology gave her the opportunity to look into society challenges and attitudes from a psychological standpoint. She started working at University of California at Santa Cruz as a Professor in 2008 in various subjects such as Social Psychology, African American Psychology, oppression and liberation, peace Psychology, and introduction to Psychology. In previous years, she was affiliated with numerous international institutions, such as the University of Amsterdam, the Missouri Institute of Mental Health, Harvard University, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa.

White published and edited a number of notable books in addition to her academic work. Some of her own books are Ain't I a Feminist?: African American Men Speak Out on Fatherhood, Friendship, Forgiveness, and Freedom (2008) and African Americans Doing Feminism: Putting Theory into Everyday Practice (2010).

Research
Music was one of White's numerous passions, especially John Coltrane's works. Her interest in jazz awarded her the Alden B. Dow Creativity Fellowship in 2001. The fellowship gave her the opportunity to research the connection between African American men's feminism and John Coltrane's development as a jazz musician.

Aaronette M. White conducted research into the identity of Black feminists. In one study, she investigated Black feminists racial identities as a result of feminist influences, as well as whether Black feminist men and Black feminist women have similar attitudes and belief about gender. She further tested the extent to which gender identity predicted feminist activism. She found no major gender differences in regard to their beliefs and attitudes about gender. Additionally, she found that racial and feminist identities was associated with increased feminist activism.

Representative publications
White, A. M., Strube, M. J., & Fisher, S. (1998). A Black feminist model of rape myth acceptance: Implications for research and antirape advocacy in Black communities. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 22(2), 157-175. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-6402.1998.tb00148.x

White, A. M. (1999). TALKING FEMINIST, TALKING BLACK1: Micromobilization processes in a collective protest against rape. Gender & Society, 13(1), 77-100. https://doi.org/10.1177/089124399013001005

White, A. M. (2006). Racial and gender attitudes as predictors of feminist activism among self-identified African American feminists. Journal of Black Psychology, 32(4), 455-478. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095798406292469

White, A. M., & Peretz, T. (2010). Emotions and redefining black masculinity: Movement narratives of two profeminist organizers. Men and Masculinities, 12(4), 403-424. https://doi.org/10.1177/1097184X08326007

Books

 * White, A. M. (2008). Ain't I a feminist?: African American men speak out on fatherhood, friendship, forgiveness, and freedom. State University of New York Press.
 * White, A. M. (Ed.). (2010). African Americans doing feminism: Putting theory into everyday practice. SUNY Press.