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discrimination at work, and to develop particular physical illnesses.”

“The systematic diagnosis of schizophrenia among Black people was further used to pathologise their direct and organised responses to systemic racism. In the 1960s, the US psychiatrists Walter Bromberg and Franck Simon suggested that Malcolm X and the civil rights movement had sparked a wave of violent schizophrenic symptoms and paranoid ‘racial antagonism’ in Black Americans.”