1. Introduction.- 2. How 'race' began, and the emergence of psychiatry and clinical psychology.- 3. Race thinking and racism become the norm.- 4. New racisms appear in the 1960s.- 5. Racism in a context of multiculturalism.- 6. Struggle against racism in the UK.- 7. Persistence of racism through white power.- 8. Racism post 9/11.- 9. Racism with the advent of Trump and after Brexit.
“Dr. Fernando’s reflections on his fifty years of involvement with mental health in post-war multicultural Britain cast an unforgiving light on this sector’s failure to confront its own racist assumptions. It makes for uncomfortable reading, but it is a history that we urgently need to understand if we are not to continue repeating it.” (David Ingleby, Centre for Social Science and Global Health, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
“Dr. Fernando goes straight to the heart of the issue of racism in the UK and the USA. His evidence for racism being alive and well is documented with pithy historical and personal vignettes. It is a joy to have a credible source to tackle such sensitive issues such as racism.” (Carl C. Bell, Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)