Under the strain of color : Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the promise of an antiracist psychiatry / Gabriel N. Mendes.
- Mendes, Gabriel N., 1972-
- Date:
- [2015]
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2015]
Physical description
xi, 196 pages : black and white illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Contributors
Contents
Introduction : "a deeper silence" -- 1. "This burden of consciousness" : Richard Wright and the psychology of race relations, 1927-1947 -- 2. "Intangible difficulties" : Dr. Fredric Wertham and the politics of psychiatry in the interwar years -- 3. "Between the sewer and the church" : the emergence of the Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic -- 4. Children and the violence of racism : the Lafargue Clinic, comic books, and the case against school segregation -- Epilogue : "an experiment in the social basis of psychotherapy".
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Languages
Subjects
- Mental Health Serviceshistory
- Black or African Americanhistory
- Black or African Americanpsychiatry
- History, 20th Century
- African AmericansMental health servicesNew York (State)New York.
- African AmericansMental healthNew York (State)New York.
- Social psychiatryNew York (State)New York.
- Community psychiatryNew York (State)New York.
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
- Wertham, Fredric, 1895-1981.
- Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.)
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicinePP.U.623Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9780801453502
- 080145350X