Katie Charlwood

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Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood · 201. The Protest Psychosis · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

so cheap that anybody could afford it even black people and so there was a fear that because of the cocaine and coca-cola that black men were going to drink it and they were going to violently attack white women like this was a genuine a genuine concern and that is why they removed the cocaine from coca-cola so fear

There wasn't fear in black communities, right?

Like, there was.

I mean, they had very good reasons to fear violence from the state, but there was fear amongst white institutions that believed social order itself was under threat.

Please, won't somebody think of the children?

So, this fear spread through politics, policing, journalism, and popular culture.

And psychiatry changes too.

And increasingly, psychiatric articles began describing schizophrenia in terms of hostility, aggression, paranoia and violence.

And some researchers explicitly linked these symptoms to black men.

Others suggested that the civil rights activism itself reflected paranoid thinking or pathological hostility toward authority.

Delusional anti-whiteness.

Now, before anyone starts shopping in pitchforks, you know, this is looking at history.

Looking at history, not psychiatric mental health, like, as a whole.

Now,

There were psychiatrists who disagreed with these ideas at the time, and others just accepted it without questioning it.

There'll always be some people who'll, you know, just take information willy-nilly, like people who watch Fox News, and there are some who actually do a lot more research and pay attention now.

Right.

American society suddenly began imagining schizophrenia differently.

And it had surprisingly little to do with neuroscience and quite a lot to do with the politics of race, fear and power in 20th century America.

And to basically understand how schizophrenia became entangled with race and protest, we have to understand what psychiatrists thought schizophrenia actually was before the civil rights movement.

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