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Under the Strain of Color : Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry / Gabriel N. Mendes.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cornell Studies in the History of PsychiatryPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) : 10 halftonesContent type:
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  • 9781501701399
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.89008996073 23
LOC classification:
  • RC451.5.N4 M43 2016
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

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