LEADER 04789nam 2200745 450 001 9910797409103321 005 20230124193312.0 010 $a1-5017-0138-X 010 $a1-5017-0139-8 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501701399 035 $a(CKB)3710000000470680 035 $a(EBL)4189247 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001545238 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16134799 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001545238 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14630754 035 $a(PQKB)10262499 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001516679 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4189247 035 $a(OCoLC)1016595899 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse56402 035 $a(DE-B1597)478440 035 $a(OCoLC)979585081 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501701399 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4189247 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11129084 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL830124 035 $a(OCoLC)919921368 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000470680 100 $a20151223h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnnu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aUnder the strain of color $eHarlem's Lafargue Clinic and the promise of an antiracist psychiatry /$fGabriel N. Mendes 210 1$aIthaca, New York ;$aLondon, [England] :$cCornell University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (209 p.) 225 1 $aCornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a0-8014-5350-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: "A Deeper Science" --$t1. "This Burden of Consciousness": Richard Wright and the Psychology of Race Relations, 1927-1947 --$t2. "Intangible Difficulties": Dr. Fredric Wertham and the Politics of Psychiatry in the Interwar Years --$t3. "Between the Sewer and the Church": The Emergence of the Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic --$t4. Children and the Violence of Racism: The Lafargue Clinic, Comic Books, and the Case against School Segregation --$tEpilogue: "An Experiment in the Social Basis of Psychotherapy" --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIn Under the Strain of Color, Gabriel N. Mendes recaptures the history of a largely forgotten New York City institution that embodied new ways of thinking about mental health, race, and the substance of citizenship. Harlem's Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic was founded in 1946 as both a practical response to the need for low-cost psychotherapy and counseling for black residents (many of whom were recent migrants to the city) and a model for nationwide efforts to address racial disparities in the provision of mental health care in the United States. The result of a collaboration among the psychiatrist and social critic Dr. Fredric Wertham, the writer Richard Wright, and the clergyman Rev. Shelton Hale Bishop, the clinic emerged in the context of a widespread American concern with the mental health of its citizens. It proved to be more radical than any other contemporary therapeutic institution, however, by incorporating the psychosocial significance of anti-black racism and class oppression into its approach to diagnosis and therapy. Mendes shows the Lafargue Clinic to have been simultaneously a scientific and political gambit, challenging both a racist mental health care system and supposedly color-blind psychiatrists who failed to consider the consequences of oppression in their assessment and treatment of African American patients. Employing the methods of oral history, archival research, textual analysis, and critical race philosophy, Under the Strain of Color contributes to a growing body of scholarship that highlights the interlocking relationships among biomedicine, institutional racism, structural violence, and community health activism. 410 0$aCornell studies in the history of psychiatry. 606 $aAfrican Americans$xMental health services$zNew York (State)$zNew York 606 $aAfrican Americans$xMental health$zNew York (State)$zNew York 606 $aSocial psychiatry$zNew York (State)$zNew York 606 $aCommunity psychiatry$zNew York (State)$zNew York 607 $aHarlem (New York, N.Y.) 610 $aBrown v. Board of Education and social science, healthcare and civil rights, black mental health, Richard wrigth,. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xMental health services 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xMental health 615 0$aSocial psychiatry 615 0$aCommunity psychiatry 676 $a616.890089/96073 700 $aMendes$b Gabriel N.$f1972-$01491102 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797409103321 996 $aUnder the strain of color$93712702 997 $aUNINA