Friendship, Love, and Hip Hop : An Ethnography of African American Men in Psychiatric Custody
2015 ed.
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Culture, Mind, and Society
ISBN-10
1137544724
ISBN-13
9781137544728
Edition
2015 ed.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 12th, 2015
Print length
267 Pages
Weight
482 grams
Dimensions
14.80 x 22.40 x 2.20 cms
Ksh 14,400.00
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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.
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.
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