Slums, race and mental health in New York (1938–1965)
Claude Brown’s seminal 1965 memoir “Manchild in the Promised Land” appeared when Americans were trying to make sense of the Watts Rebellion of 1965. A “bildungsroman”, Brown’s autobiography details how he, a former juvenile delinquent and residential treatment center client, became a stable adult on...
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Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
2018
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