Book ID: CBB957843057

The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (2009)

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Metzl, Jonathan Michel (Author)


Beacon Press


Publication Date: 2009
Physical Details: 272
Language: English

A powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness The civil rights era is largely remembered as a time of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots. But a very different civil rights history evolved at the Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Ionia, Michigan. In The Protest Psychosis, psychiatrist and cultural critic Jonathan Metzl tells the shocking story of how schizophrenia became the diagnostic term overwhelmingly applied to African American protesters at Ionia—for political reasons as well as clinical ones. Expertly sifting through a vast array of cultural documents, Metzl shows how associations between schizophrenia and blackness emerged during the tumultuous decades of the 1960s and 1970s—and he provides a cautionary tale of how anxieties about race continue to impact doctor-patient interactions in our seemingly postracial America.

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Authors & Contributors
Doyle, Dennis
Hatch, Anthony Ryan
Muigai, Wangui
Koretzky, Maya Overby
Pateau, Alexandre
Bargel, Antoine
Concepts
African Americans and science
Medicine and race
African Americans
Psychiatry
Mental disorders and diseases
Public health
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
18th century
Places
United States
Georgia (U.S.)
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Southern states (U.S.)
South Africa
Mexico
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