Under the strain of color: Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the promise of an antiracist psychiatry

Introduction : "a deeper silence"

1. "This burden of consciousness" : Richard Wright and the psychology of race relations, 1927-1947

2. "Intangible difficulties" : Dr. Fredric Wertham and the politics of psychiatry in the interwar years

3. "Between the sewer and the church" : the emergence of the Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic

4. Children and the violence of racism : the Lafargue Clinic, comic books, and the case against school segregation

Epilogue : "an experiment in the social basis of psychotherapy."

Introduction : fighters against this debilitating ghetto

This burden of consciousness : Richard Wright and the psychology of race relations, 1927-1947

Intangible difficulties : Dr. Fredric Wertham and the politics of psychiatry in the interwar years

Between the sewer and the church : the emergence of the Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic

Children and the violence of racism : the Lafargue Clinic, comic books, and the case against school segregation

Epilogue : an experiment in the social basis of psychotherapy.