Drawing on a lifetime of experience as a practicing psychiatrist, he examines how the system has shifted in response to new forms of racism which have emerged since the 1960s, highlighting the widespread pathologization of black people, the impact of Islamophobia on clinical practice after 9/11, and various struggles to reform.
Suman Fernando is Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at London Metropolitan University, UK.
1. Introduction.- 2. How 'race' began, and the emergence of psychiatry and clinical psychology.- 3. Race thinking and racism become the norm.- 4. New racisms appear in the 1960s.- 5. Racism in a context of multiculturalism.- 6. Struggle against racism in the UK.- 7. Persistence of racism through white power.- 8. Racism post 9/11.- 9. Racism with the advent of Trump and after Brexit.
Suman Fernando, Frank Keating, UK) Fernando, Suman (Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, UK) Keating, Frank (Royal Holloway University of London, Dr Suman Fernando
Suman Fernando, Frank Keating, UK) Fernando, Suman (Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, UK) Keating, Frank (Royal Holloway University of London, Dr Suman Fernando