The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease

The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease

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 diffe…

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