The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease

By Jonathan M. Metzl

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807085928
• ISBN13: 9780807085929
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.1"