Date of Award

2015

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Social Sciences

First Advisor

Baram, Uzi

Keywords

Sarasota, Florida, Race, Mental Health, Community, Newtown

Area of Concentration

Anthropology

Abstract

This thesis consists of an ethnographic account of groups working to address mental health care needs in Newtown, Sarasota, a community with a historically large Black population compared to the rest of the city of Sarasota. This project addresses the histories of race, racism, and power in the United States, with a focus on the ways these structures affect mental health and mental health care for Black Americans in particular. Presented here are the findings of participant observatory and survey research that was conducted with the United Sarasota committee, a group of community organizers who live or work in the Newtown community who have arranged and facilitated a “community conversation” on Mental Health and Public Safety. Also presented here is the history of the Genesis Health Services, Inc., Newtown Clinic, which provided health care, including mental health care, for individuals without health insurance in Newtown until the spring of 2015.

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