Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936–1968

Dennis A. Doyle

doi:10.1017/9781782048442

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

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgments
pp vii-viii

Introduction
pp 1-14

1 - Before Racial Liberalism: Depression-Era Harlem and Psychiatry, 1936
pp 15-34

2 - Everyone's Children: Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Justine Wise Polier's Courtroom, 1936–41
pp 35-54

3 - Psychiatry Goes to School: Child Guidance and the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency, 1940–42
pp 55-75

4 - Psychiatry for Harlem: Wartime Activism and the Black Community's Mental Health Needs, 1942–45
pp 76-95

5 - The Quiet One: Racial Representation in Popular Media and Psychiatric Literature, 1942–53
pp 96-116

6 - Psychiatry Comes to Harlem Hospital: Community Psychiatry, Aftercare, and Columbia University, 1947–62
pp 117-135

7 - The Limits of Racial Liberalism: Harlem Hospital and the Black Community, 1963–68
pp 136-155

Conclusion: Health, Race, and the Color-Blind Legacy of the Long Civil-Rights Era
pp 156-164

Notes
pp 165-230

Bibliography
pp 231-252

Index
pp 253-260

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