Research Catalog

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Description

1. xv, 267 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. "In this unique firsthand account, Hejtmanek explores the path into psychiatric custody, where American youth are institutionalized for comprehensive mental health treatment. Like other forms of state custody in the United States, psychiatric custody is home to disproportionate rates of African American boys. The ostensible goal of psychiatric custody is to transform "troubled youths" into "productive citizens" through highly structured therapeutic regimes and the internalization of new ways of being. While the young men in Hejtmanek's study face the rigidity of institutionalized life, they challenge it in profound ways by productively maneuvering through what the author analyzes as the "give in the system." Hejtmanek offers an insider's view of how friendships, positive intergenerational Black male relationships, love, and hip hop shape healing within the confines of a mental institution"--
2. "Friendship, Love, and Hip Hop investigates how young Black men live and change inside a mental institution in contemporary America. While the youth in Hejtmanek's study face the rigidity of institutionalized life, they also productively maneuver through what the author analyzes as the "give"-- friendship, love, and hip hop-- in the system"--

Series statement

1. Culture, mind, and society

Uniform title

1. Culture, mind, and society.

Subject

1. Adolescent psychotherapy > United States
2. African American young men > Psychology

Contents

1. Histories and Social Contexts -- The Ethnographic Setting -- Institutional Living -- Crazy Shit -- A Keepin' It Real Group -- Kickin' It -- Becoming Good Men -- A Hip-Hop-Therapeutic Subjectivity -- Mad Love : Theorizing and Politicizing Transformation.

Call number

1. Sc D 15-1804

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Hejtmanek, Katie Rose, author.

Title

1. Friendship, love, and hip hop : an ethnography of African American men in psychiatric custody / Katie Rose Hejtmanek.

Publisher

1. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Copyright date

1. ©2015

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Culture, mind, and society
2. Culture, mind, and society.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2015015112

ISBN

1. 9781137544728 hardcover
2. 1137544724 hardcover

Research call number

1. Sc D 15-1804