Under the strain of color : Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the promise of an antiracist psychiatry / Gabriel N. Mendes.

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2015]

xi, 196 pages : black and white illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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".