Under the Strain of Color : Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry /
Mendes, Gabriel N.
Under the Strain of Color : Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry / Gabriel N. Mendes. - 1 online resource (208 p.) : 10 halftones - Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: “A Deeper Science” -- 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” -- Notes -- Index
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In Under the Strain of Color, Gabriel N. Mendes recaptures the history of Harlem's Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic, a New York City institution that embodied new ways of thinking about mental health, race, and the substance of citizenship. The result of a collaboration among the psychiatrist and social critic Dr. Fredric Wertham, the writer Richard Wright, and the clergyman Rev. Shelton Hale Bishop, the clinic emerged in the context of a widespread American concern with the mental health of its citizens. Mendes shows the clinic to have been simultaneously a scientific and political gambit, challenging both a racist mental health care system and supposedly color-blind psychiatrists who failed to consider the consequences of oppression in their assessment and treatment of African American patients. Employing the methods of oral history, archival research, textual analysis, and critical race philosophy, Under the Strain of Color contributes to a growing body of scholarship that highlights the interlocking relationships among biomedicine, institutional racism, structural violence, and community health activism.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501701399
10.7591/9781501701399 doi
African Americans--Mental health services--New York (State)--New York.
African Americans--Mental health services--New York (State)--New York.
African Americans--Mental health--New York (State)--New York.
African Americans--Mental health--New York (State)--New York.
Community psychiatry--New York (State)--New York.
Community psychiatry--New York (State)--New York.
Social psychiatry--New York (State)--New York.
Social psychiatry--New York (State)--New York.
African-American Studies.
Psychology & Psychiatry.
U.S. History.
HISTORY / African American .
Brown v. Board of Education and social science, healthcare and civil rights, black mental health, Richard Wright.
RC451.5.N4 / M43 2016
616.89008996073
Under the Strain of Color : Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry / Gabriel N. Mendes. - 1 online resource (208 p.) : 10 halftones - Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: “A Deeper Science” -- 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” -- Notes -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In Under the Strain of Color, Gabriel N. Mendes recaptures the history of Harlem's Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic, a New York City institution that embodied new ways of thinking about mental health, race, and the substance of citizenship. The result of a collaboration among the psychiatrist and social critic Dr. Fredric Wertham, the writer Richard Wright, and the clergyman Rev. Shelton Hale Bishop, the clinic emerged in the context of a widespread American concern with the mental health of its citizens. Mendes shows the clinic to have been simultaneously a scientific and political gambit, challenging both a racist mental health care system and supposedly color-blind psychiatrists who failed to consider the consequences of oppression in their assessment and treatment of African American patients. Employing the methods of oral history, archival research, textual analysis, and critical race philosophy, Under the Strain of Color contributes to a growing body of scholarship that highlights the interlocking relationships among biomedicine, institutional racism, structural violence, and community health activism.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501701399
10.7591/9781501701399 doi
African Americans--Mental health services--New York (State)--New York.
African Americans--Mental health services--New York (State)--New York.
African Americans--Mental health--New York (State)--New York.
African Americans--Mental health--New York (State)--New York.
Community psychiatry--New York (State)--New York.
Community psychiatry--New York (State)--New York.
Social psychiatry--New York (State)--New York.
Social psychiatry--New York (State)--New York.
African-American Studies.
Psychology & Psychiatry.
U.S. History.
HISTORY / African American .
Brown v. Board of Education and social science, healthcare and civil rights, black mental health, Richard Wright.
RC451.5.N4 / M43 2016
616.89008996073