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Loading... Psychology Comes to Harlem: Rethinking the Race Question in Twentieth-Century America (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History) (edition 2012)by Jay Garcia (Author)
Work InformationPsychology Comes to Harlem: Rethinking the Race Question in Twentieth-Century America (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History) by Jay Garcia
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I appreciated Garcia's blend of history and literary insight in this text. After reading, I am curious about the absence of such robust interdisciplinary dialogue, particularly in realms of psychology and psychoanalysis today with anti-racist movements and advocacy, that's only been recently highlighted more explicitly, at least to me, after the murder of George Floyd. no reviews | add a review
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In the years preceding the modern civil rights era, cultural critics profoundly affected American letters through psychologically informed explorations of racial ideology and segregationist practice. Jay Garcia’s probing look at how and why these critiques arose and the changes they wrought demonstrates the central role Richard Wright and his contemporaries played in devising modern antiracist cultural analysis. Departing from the largely accepted existence of a "Negro Problem," Wright and such literary luminaries as Ralph Ellison, Lillian Smith, and James Baldwin described and challenged a racist social order whose psychological undercurrents implicated all Americans and had yet to be adequately studied. Motivated by the elastic possibilities of clinical and academic inquiry, writers and critics undertook a rethinking of "race" and assessed the value of psychotherapy and psychological theory as antiracist strategies. Garcia examines how this new criticism brought together black and white writers and became a common idiom through fiction and nonfiction that attracted wide readerships. An illuminating picture of mid-twentieth-century American literary culture and learned life, Psychology Comes to Harlem reveals the critical and intellectual innovation of literary artists who bridged psychology and antiracism to challenge segregation. No library descriptions found. |
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