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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
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 196 pages) : map
Series Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry
Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry.
Contents 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
Summary "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 practical response to the need for low-cost psychotherapy and counseling for black residents (many of whom were recent migrants to the city) and a model for nationwide efforts to address racial disparities in the provision of mental health care in the United States"--Publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Wertham, Fredric, 1895-1981.
SUBJECT Wertham, Fredric, 1895-1981
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960
Wertham, Fredric, 1895-1981 fast
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 fast
Subject Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.)
SUBJECT Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.)
Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.) fast
Subject 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
Mental Health Services -- history
Black or African American -- history
African Americans -- psychiatry
History, 20th Century
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
African Americans -- Mental health
African Americans -- Mental health services
Community psychiatry
Social psychiatry
SUBJECT Harlem (New York, N.Y.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79063979
Subject New York (State) -- New York
New York (State) -- New York -- Harlem
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501701399
1501701398
9781501701382
150170138X