Spring/Summer 2019 (Vol. 47, Nos. 1&2)

Draw Them In, Paint Them Out
The Jewish Museum exhibition Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston conjures a multisensory world that compels belief. By Emmy Waldman

Nurturing Black Maternal Health
There’s plenty of data on Black maternal mental health and obstetric racism but we are not providing the culturally responsive care that is needed. By Sevonna Brown

Converging Crises
In New York City, homelessness, immigration, and racism are converging to the point of a crisis. By Henry Love
Why Rosa Parks Did Yoga
Inspiring stories of collective self-care are evident in the life writings of Black women, including Rosa Parks. By Stephanie Y. Evans

Black Religion as Barrier and Balm
Black religious communities should be places of spiritual liberation for those who live with mental health challenges. By Monica A. Coleman

The Racialization of Religious Excitement in American Psychiatry
Historically, white psychiatrists produced theories of religion that became constitutive elements of their racialized understandings of the normal and disordered mind. By Judith Weisenfeld

Dis/appearing
Instead of a theodicy of progress, we need to enact a “hauntodicy of blackness” by staying with the dead and not moving on. By Biko Mandela Gray

Memory, History, and the Ethics of Reparations
Henry Ossawa Tanner’s global pursuit of reconciliation is a cautionary tale if we are going to take corporate and civic responsibility for the crime of enslavement. By Terrence L. Johnson

Building Trust through Truth-telling
A Q&A with Wendy Sanford and Mary Norman about These Walls between Us: A Memoir of Friendship across Race and Class. By Eva Seligman

Cannon, Williams, and Womanist Survival
Womanism founders Katie Cannon and Delores Williams created groundbreaking work that has led to a wide range of scholarship focused on the thriving of Black women. By Gary Dorrien