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Garcia, Jay.

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Psychology comes to Harlem: Race, intellectuals, and culture in the mid-twentieth century United States (New York City).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Psychology comes to Harlem: Race, intellectuals, and culture in the mid-twentieth century United States (New York City)./
Author:	Garcia, Jay.
Description:	275 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-10, Section: A, page: 3731.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-10A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3109396
ISBN:	0496569384

Psychology comes to Harlem: Race, intellectuals, and culture in the mid-twentieth century United States (New York City).
Garcia, Jay.

Psychology comes to Harlem: Race, intellectuals, and culture in the mid-twentieth century United States (New York City). - 275 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-10, Section: A, page: 3731.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2003.

Psychological discourses attained considerable explanatory power and cultural momentum within discussions of racism in the U.S. during the mid-twentieth century, particularly the 1940s and 1950s. Brought about in part by the repudiation of scientific racism in social scientific thought in the 1930s, conceptualizations of racism as a psychological problem achieved substantial currency in American cultural and intellectual life. Psychological explanation provided a generative discursive orientation from which several writers, filmmakers, radical activists, and liberals sought to advance anti-racist politics. Moreover, through novels and cinematic treatments, psychological conceptualizations of racism became one of the distinguishing features of mid-century American culture. Concentrating on how such conceptualizations were used to frame anti-black racism in particular, the dissertation reveals both the significant social critiques and limitations embedded in such approaches.

ISBN: 0496569384Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

Psychology comes to Harlem: Race, intellectuals, and culture in the mid-twentieth century United States (New York City).
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