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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807001279
• ISBN13: 9780807001271
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"