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The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became A Black Disease
by Jonathan Metzl

    Publication Date: Jan 01, 2010
    List Price: $24.95
    Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9780807085929
    Imprint: Beacon Press
    Publisher: Beacon Press
    Parent Company: Unitarian Universalist Association

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    Hardcover Description:

    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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