| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 196 pages) : map. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry
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Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.)
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Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.) |
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Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.
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Wright, Richard, 1908-1960. |
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Wertham, Fredric, 1895-1981.
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Wertham, Fredric, 1895-1981. |
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African Americans -- Mental health services -- New York (State) -- New York.
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African Americans -- Mental health services. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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African Americans. |
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African Americans -- Mental health -- New York (State) -- New York.
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African Americans -- Mental health. |
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Social psychiatry -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Social psychiatry. |
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Community psychiatry -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Community psychiatry. |
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
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Mental Health Services -- history. |
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Black or African American -- history. |
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Black or African American. |
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Psychiatry. |
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History, 20th Century. |
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New York City. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mendes, Gabriel N., 1972- Under the strain of color. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015 9780801453502 (DLC) 2015005315 (OCoLC)903473879 |
| ISBN |
9781501701399 (electronic book) |
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1501701398 (electronic book) |
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9780801453502 |
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080145350X |
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