Dennis A Dennis A. Doyle

Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936-1968 (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Reveals the history of the individuals who worked to make psychiatry more available to Harlem's black community in the early Civil Rights Era.

Toward the middle of the twentieth century, African Americans in New York City began to receive increased access to mental health care in some facilities within the city's mental health system. This study documents how and why this important change in public health-and in public opinion on race-occurred. Drawing on records from New York's children's courts, Harlem's public schools, Columbia University, and the Department of Hospitals, Dennis Doyle tells here the story of the American psychiatrists and civil servants who helped codify in New York's mental health policies the view that blacks and whites are psychological equals. The book examines in particular the events through which these racial liberals working in Harlem gained a foothold within New York's public institutions, creating inclusive public policies and ostensibly race-neutral standards of care. Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936-1968 not only contributes to the growing body of historiography on race and medical institutions in the civil rights era but, more importantly, shows how inveterate racial prejudices within public policy can be overcome.

Dennis A. Doyle is assistant professor of history at the Saint Louis College of Pharmacy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782048879
• Artikelnr.: 56407362

Autorenporträt

Dennis A. Doyle

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Before Racial Liberalism: Depression-Era Harlem and Psychiatry
1936 Everyone's Children: Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Justine Wise Polier's Courtroom
1936-41 Psychiatry Goes to School: Child Guidance and the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency
1940-42 Psychiatry for Harlem: Wartime Activism and the Black Community's Mental Health Needs
1942-45 The Quiet One: Racial Representation in Popular Media and Psychiatric Literature
1942-53 Psychiatry Comes to Harlem Hospital: Community Psychiatry
Aftercare
and Columbia University
1947-62 The Limits of Racial Liberalism: Harlem Hospital and the Black Community
1963-68 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index