TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mendes,Gabriel N.
TI  - Under the strain of color: Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the promise of an antiracist psychiatry 
T2  - Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry
SN  - 9781501701399
AV  - RC451.5.N4 M43 2015eb
U1  - 616.890089/96073 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Wright, Richard,
KW  - Wertham, Fredric,
KW  - Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - fast
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Mental health services
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Mental health
KW  - Social psychiatry
KW  - Community psychiatry
KW  - Mental Health Services
KW  - history
KW  - psychiatry
KW  - History, 20th Century
KW  - Noirs américains
KW  - Services de santé mentale
KW  - New York (État)
KW  - Santé mentale
KW  - Psychiatrie sociale
KW  - Psychiatrie communautaire
KW  - Médecine
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS
KW  - Diseases
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Clinical Medicine
KW  - Evidence-Based Medicine
KW  - Internal Medicine
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - Harlem
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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
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