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Under the strain of color : Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the promise of an antiracist psychiatry
- Title
- Under the strain of color : Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the promise of an antiracist psychiatry / Gabriel N. Mendes.
- Author
- Mendes, Gabriel N., 1972-
- Publication
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.
- ©2015
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- Description
- xi, 196 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry
- Uniform Title
- Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry.
- Subject
- Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
- Wertham, Fredric, 1895-1981
- Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.)
- African Americans > Mental health services > New York (State) > New York
- African Americans > Mental health > New York (State) > New York
- Social psychiatry > New York (State) > New York
- Community psychiatry > New York (State) > New York
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : "a deeper silence" -- 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".
- Call Number
- Sc E 15-1752
- ISBN
- 9780801453502 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 080145350X (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2015005315
- OCLC
- 903473879
- Author
- Mendes, Gabriel N., 1972- author.
- Title
- Under the strain of color : Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the promise of an antiracist psychiatry / Gabriel N. Mendes.
- Publisher
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cornell studies in the history of psychiatryCornell studies in the history of psychiatry.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 15-1752