Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936-1968

by Dennis A. Doyle

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580464920
• ISBN13: 9781580464925
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"