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Under the Strain of Color: Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry

Under the Strain of Color: Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the Promise of an Antiracist Psychiatry

Mendes, Gabriel N.

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Series: Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry

Medical ReferenceBlack American HistoryRegional: Middle Atlantic

ISBN10: 1501755315
ISBN13: 9781501755316
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Jun 15 2021
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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