TY - BOOK AU - Mendes,Gabriel N. TI - Under the Strain of Color: Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry T2 - Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry SN - 9781501701399 AV - RC451.5.N4 M43 2016 U1 - 616.89008996073 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Ithaca, NY PB - Cornell University Press KW - African Americans KW - Mental health services KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Mental health KW - Community psychiatry KW - Social psychiatry KW - African-American Studies KW - Psychology & Psychiatry KW - U.S. History KW - HISTORY / African American KW - bisacsh KW - Brown v. Board of Education and social science, healthcare and civil rights, black mental health, Richard Wright N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501701399 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501701399 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501701399/original ER -