Under the Strain of Color : Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry /
"In Under the Strain of Color, Gabriel N. Mendes recaptures 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 1946 as both a pra...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2015.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : fighters against this debilitating ghetto
- This burden of consciousness : Richard Wright and the psychology of race relations, 1927-1947
- Intangible difficulties : Dr. Fredric Wertham and the politics of psychiatry in the interwar years
- Between the sewer and the church : the emergence of the Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic
- 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.