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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2015
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| Series: | Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry.
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| 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 196 pages) : map |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781501701399 1501701398 9781501701382 150170138X |
| Language: | In English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
