Wade W. Nobles is a professor emeritus in the Department of Africana Studies at San Francisco State University and notable pioneer of the African-American psychology movement.
[1] His parents, Annie Mae Cotton and John Nobles, chose the name Wade, meaning "one who is able to tread through difficult matter like mud, snow or ignorance.
[2] He is married to Vera Lynn Winmilawe Nokwanda DeMoultrie (PhD), with whom Nobles has five children and 11 grandchildren.
[3] An experimental social psychologist, Nobles focuses his research on such topics as African psychology, Black self-concept, African-American family dynamics, and African-centered education, healing, and spirituality.
[4] Among Nobles' scientific publications is his article "Extended self: Rethinking the so-called Negro self-concept," which critiques Euro-Americans' research about African Americans on the basis of their fundamental misunderstanding of group differences and misapplication of Euro-centric norms.