Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Before Racial Liberalism: Depression-Era Harlem and Psychiatry, 1936 15
6. 2 Everyone’s Children: Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Justine Wise Polier’s Courtroom, 1936–41 35
7. 3 Psychiatry Goes to School: Child Guidance and the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency, 1940–42 55
8. 4 Psychiatry for Harlem: Wartime Activism and the Black Community’s Mental Health Needs, 1942–45 76
9. 5 The Quiet One: Racial Representation in Popular Media and Psychiatric Literature, 1942–53 96
10. 6 Psychiatry Comes to Harlem Hospital: Community Psychiatry, Aftercare, and Columbia University, 1947–62 117
11. 7 The Limits of Racial Liberalism: Harlem Hospital and the Black Community, 1963–68 136
12. Conclusion 156
13. Notes 165
14. Bibliography 231
15. Index 253