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The color of hope : people of color mental health narratives / edited by Vanessa Hazzard & Iresha Picot, M.Ed. ; foreward by Rasheedah Phillips, Esq.

Van Pelt Library RC451.5.N4 C65 2015
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Hazzard, Vanessa, editor.
Picot, Iresha, editor.
Phillips, Rasheedah, writer of foreword.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Minorities--Mental health--Personal narratives.
Minorities.
African Americans--Mental health--Personal narratives.
African Americans.
Mental health--Personal narratives.
Mental health.
African Americans--Mental health.
Minorities--Mental health.
Genre:
Personal narratives.
Autobiographies.
Self-help publications.
Physical Description:
xii, ii, 67 pages ; 23 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
[Philadelphia?] : [Self-published], [2015]
Summary:
This project sheds light on mental health in communities of color by sharing stories by those affected by mental illness. By sharing our stories, we open up discussion around the topic and break through stigma and shame. The contributors represent those living with or affected by loved ones with depression, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, and other conditions. They are men and women, children and adults, political prisoners, college students, politicians, musicians, business people, artists, fathers, mothers, daughters...all of African, Latino, and Asian descent. Their narratives add to the tapestry of the human experience and without them, our history is incomplete.
Contents:
The patient prisoner
Close to happy
Interview with Tajsha Lewis
Mind chatter
Black and white rabbits
Interview with Nichole Webb
Mental health
Pain: where we meet face to face
The Mama that yelled: black mothering through depression
Interview with Lydia Kirkland
Sleeping beauty
Watch me
What's it like?
A complicated normal
Not ready to die but wanting to die: depression, hip hop and the death of Chris Lighty
My story
Stripped
Us
Interview with Shanda Mickens
Me
Love letter to mom
About the curators
Resources.
Notes:
Publication information from Amazon.com.
"Foreword" spelled as "Foreward" on resource.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 60-61).
ISBN:
1514273489
9781514273487
OCLC:
932001206

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