The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease by Jonathan M. Metzl

The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease

Jonathan M. Metzl

246 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health psychology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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