From the Enlightenment to Black Lives Matter
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From the Enlightenment to Black Lives Matter

Tracing the Impacts of Racial Trauma in Black Communities from the Colonial Era to the Present

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  2. English
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From the Enlightenment to Black Lives Matter

Tracing the Impacts of Racial Trauma in Black Communities from the Colonial Era to the Present

About this book

Since the Age of Enlightenment, Black bodies have been sites of trauma. Drawing on anti-colonial theory, From the Enlightenment to Black Lives Matter interrogates how this has shaped understandings of Black life, Black trauma and Black responses to trauma within psychiatry and other mental health professions.

Focusing on the impact of racism on the mental health of Black communities in Canada, the UK and the US, author Ingrid R.G. Waldron examines the structural inequities that have contributed to the legacy of racial trauma in Black communities. Drawing on existing literature, as well as the voices of Black Canadians who participated in recent studies conducted by the author, Waldron uses an intersectional analysis to pinpoint how the intersections of race, culture, gender identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, age and citizenship status shape experiences of racial trauma, mental illness and help-seeking in Black communities. Tracing the ideological representations of Black people within psychiatric and other mental health institutions that influence the diagnoses applied to them, chapters also highlight the beliefs and perceptions Black communities hold about mental health and help-seeking.

A timely challenge to the colonial and imperial legacy of psychiatry, From the Enlightenment to Black Lives Matter demonstrates how the politics of race and psychiatric diagnosis collide when diagnosing Black people and what this means for our current public health crisis.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter 1. The Age of Enlightenment: The Roots of Racism in Psychiatry
  5. Chapter 2. How Representations of Race Inform Pathways to Care and Psychiatric Diagnoses
  6. Chapter 3. Black Lives Matter: The Public Health Crisis of Anti-Black Racism
  7. Chapter 4. Perceptions and Beliefs About Mental Illness in Black Communities and How They Influence Help-seeking and Coping
  8. Chapter 5. Structural Competency: Moving Beyond Cultural Competency in the Mental Health System
  9. Conclusion: A Multilevel Approach to Addressing Racial Trauma in Black Communities
  10. References
  11. Index