Under the Strain of Color
Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry
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2015
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8014-5350-2 (ISBN)
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
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Recapturing the history of a largely forgotten New York City institution that embodied new ways of thinking about mental health, race, and the substance of citizenship. Harlem's Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic was founded in...
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.
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.
Gabriel N. Mendes is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of California, San Diego.
Introduction: "Under the Strain of Color"1. "This Burden of Consciousness": Richard Wright and the Psychology of Race Relations, 1927–19472. "Intangible Difficulties": Dr. Fredric Wertham and the Politics of Psychiatry in the Interwar Years3. "Between the Sewer and the Church": The Emergence of the Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic4. Children and the Violence of Racism: The Lafargue Clinic, Comic Books, and the Case against School SegregationEpilogue: "An Experiment in the Social Basis of Psychotherapy"Notes
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| Reihe/Serie | Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 10 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Ithaca |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 168 x 238 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8014-5350-X / 080145350X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8014-5350-2 / 9780801453502 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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