Transition. 115, Mad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Journals, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism in psychology.

Ethnopsychology.

African Americans--Psychology.

African Americans.

Black people--Race identity.

Black people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Bloomington, Indiana] : [Indiana University Press], [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Published three times per year by Indiana University Press for the Hutchins Center at Harvard University, Transition is a unique forum for the freshest, most compelling ideas from and about the black world. Since its founding in Uganda in 1961, the magazine has kept apace of the rapid transformation of the African Diaspora and has remained a leading forum of intellectual debate. This issue of Transition focuses on Mad. The editors look at connections between blackness and psychology, examining Richard Wright's attempts to bring clinical psychotherapy to Harlem and revealing the links between schizophrenia and fears of black psychos. As Ferguson, Missouri becomes the latest community to rage against the state-sanctioned murder of unarmed black men, we ask what James Baldwin and Stokely Carmichael might have to tell us about why African Americans continue to be pushed to the margins of American society. The editors also examine the marginalized community of black Palestinians, doubly imperiled by Israeli slaughter and internal racism. And finally, on a lighter note, discover music and art that we're mad about--from Otis Redding and Vijay Iyer to Kara Walker and Christopher Cozier.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Race and Psychology; Introduction; An Underground Extension of Democracy; Controllin the Planet; Breaking the Chains of Stigma; Insights from Black Psychoanalysts Speak; James Baldwin, 1963, and the House that Race Built; Related Somehow to Africa; Black Power Beyond the Slogan; The Enigma of Arrival; Docking Time; ""Spellbound and Sacrosanct"; The Sweet Tooth of Slavery; "Put your hand in the air"; Notes on Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed April 17, 2015).

ISBN:

9780253018564

0253018560

OCLC:

908071810