Article ID: CBB346226542

A Load off Whose Heart? Psychiatry and the Politics of Respectability and Race Representation in Harlem, 1943-45 (2019)

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In wartime Harlem, liberal mental health professionals, eager to serve the black freedom struggle, sought to depict the minds of troubled black children as human without reinforcing pernicious racial stereotypes. This paper examines how psychiatrist Viola W. Bernard and the Community Service Society struggled to portray the black community as both psychologically damaged and morally beyond reproach when publicly presenting the cases of her male and female clients. As a consequence, liberals helped champion the mental health needs of delinquent black males as a matter of racial justice while rendering young unmarried mothers effectively invisible.

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Authors & Contributors
Doyle, Dennis
Tanya Hart
Sastre Juan, Jaume
Lesser, Thomas A.
Davey, Colin
Roosevelt, Kermit, III
Concepts
Public health
Psychiatry
Medicine and race
African Americans and science
Mental disorders and diseases
African Americans
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
New York City (New York, U.S.)
United States
New York (U.S.)
Jerusalem
Southern states (U.S.)
Washington, D. C. (U.S.)
Institutions
American Museum of Natural History
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