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 /

"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 pra...

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Main Author: Mendes, Gabriel N., 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Series:Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry.
Subjects:
Wright, Richard, > 1908-1960.
Wertham, Fredric, > 1895-1981.
Wertham, Fredric, > 1895-1981
Wright, Richard, > 1908-1960
Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.)
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
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
New York (State) > New York
New York (State) > New York > Harlem
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