IN CINEMA
The Lafargue Clinic Remixed:
NO VIETNAMESE EVER CALLED ME N - - - - -
Tickets: $15 General Admission / $7 Reduced Price
Thursday, May 2 at 7PM
Co-presented with the Doc Forum at CCNY and Third World Newsreel
David L. Weiss, 1968, 86 min
Filmed at a 400,000-person anti-war march from Harlem to the United Nations in 1967 on the occasion of Martin Luther King's speech at the U.N in which he questioned the disproportionate percentage of Black soldiers in combat in Vietnam. On-street interviews with Black residents of Harlem are interlaced with the comments of three Black soldiers who had recently returned from the war.
In this electrifying portrait of the righteous anger of anti-war protesters and veterans, director David L. Weiss captures the ways in which Black liberation and the anti-Vietnam movement were inextricably linked.
Following the screening, a talk back with Kevin Duong (author of “Broke Psychoanalysis: In Memory of the Harlem’s Lafargue Clinic,” Parapraxis) on the impact of Third World liberation struggles on the Harlem Community, the Lafargue Clinic, mental health treatment as a whole.
Screening co-presented with Parapraxis. Copies of Parapraxis will be available for sale on the day of the screening!
Kevin Duong teaches political theory and the history of the left at the University of Virginia. He’s currently writing a book that tells the story of how psychiatrists, poets, artists, and communist intellectuals drew on Freud’s ideas to undermine colonialism in the twentieth century.
Made In Harlem: The Lafargue Clinic Remixed
Founded by Reverend Sheldon Hale Bishop (Pastor of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church that housed the clinic in Harlem) with co-founders Richard Wright (author of “Native Son” and former Harlem bureau chief for the Communist Party’s Daily Worker) and Fredric Wertham (German psychoanalyst who emigrated to the United States after the rise of the Nazi Party), The Lafargue Clinic was the first of its kind in Harlem: a pay-as-you-wish anti-racist mental health clinic, staffed largely by volunteers. Operating 1946-1958 out of the basement of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, The Lafargue Clinic pioneered a form of social medicine that linked patients' medical needs with the struggle for housing and economic justice. MADE IN HARLEM: THE LAFARGUE CLINIC REMIXED is a series of films, talks, and seminars on the legacy of this groundbreaking Harlem institution and its impact today on radical healthcare organizing, mutual aid, and collective wellbeing.
Curated by Kazembe Balagun.
This series is made possible with the generous support of the West Harlem Development Corporation (WHDC).
