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Friendship, love, and hip hop : an ethnography of African American men in psychiatric custody / Katie Rose Hejtmanek.

Van Pelt Library RJ503 .H36 2015
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hejtmanek, Katie Rose.
Series:
Culture, mind, and society
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Adolescent psychotherapy--United States.
Adolescent psychotherapy.
African American young men--United States--Psychology.
African American young men.
Adolescent, Institutionalized.
Residential Treatment.
Institutionalization.
Hospitals, Psychiatric.
Black or African American--ethnology.
Interpersonal Relations.
Psychology.
United States--ethnology.
United States.
Medical Subjects:
Adolescent, Institutionalized.
Residential Treatment.
Institutionalization.
Hospitals, Psychiatric.
Black or African American--ethnology.
Interpersonal Relations.
United States--ethnology.
Physical Description:
xv, 267 pages ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2015]
Summary:
"In this unique firsthand account, Hejtmanek explores the path into psychiatric custody, where American youth are institutionalized for comprehensive mental health treatment. Like other forms of state custody in the United States, psychiatric custody is home to disproportionate rates of African American boys. The ostensible goal of psychiatric custody is to transform "troubled youths" into "productive citizens" through highly structured therapeutic regimes and the internalization of new ways of being. While the young men in Hejtmanek's study face the rigidity of institutionalized life, they challenge it in profound ways by productively maneuvering through what the author analyzes as the "give in the system." Hejtmanek offers an insider's view of how friendships, positive intergenerational Black male relationships, love, and hip hop shape healing within the confines of a mental institution"-- Provided by publisher.
"Friendship, Love, and Hip Hop investigates how young Black men live and change inside a mental institution in contemporary America. While the youth in Hejtmanek's study face the rigidity of institutionalized life, they also productively maneuver through what the author analyzes as the "give"--Friendship, love, and hip hop-- in the system"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Histories and Social Contexts
The Ethnographic Setting
Institutional Living
Crazy Shit
A Keepin' It Real Group
Kickin' It
Becoming Good Men
A Hip-Hop-Therapeutic Subjectivity
Mad Love : Theorizing and Politicizing Transformation.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index.
ISBN:
9781137544728
1137544724
OCLC:
912140497
Publisher Number:
99969120913

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