# The Protest Psychosis

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- Book: [The Protest Psychosis](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-m-metzl/the-protest-psychosis) ([The Protest Psychosis.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-m-metzl/the-protest-psychosis.md))
- Authors: [Jonathan M. Metzl](https://www.bookquiver.com/jonathan-m-metzl)
- Publisher: beacon_press
- ISBN: 978-08-0700-127-1
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2011-04-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness The civil rights era is largely remembered as a time of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots. But a very different...