Psychology comes to Harlem : rethinking the race question in twentieth-century America / Jay Garcia.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.

x, 216 pages ; 24 cm.

Richard Wright and the "the unconscious machinery of race relations" -- Richard Wright reading: the promise of social psychiatry -- "The problem of race and minorities from below": the wartime cultural criticism of Chester Himes, Horace Cayton, Ralph Ellison and C.L.R. James -- Strange fruit: Lillian Smith and the making of whiteness -- Notes of a native son: James Baldwin in postwar America.

Includes bibliographical references and index.