Introduction I. Conditions Affecting Life in Black Communities Chapter 1. Public Health and Mental Health Disparities in Black Communities: Challenges for American Chapter 2. The Highs and Lows of Public Health Practice Chapter 3. Why Economic Disparities Matter in Mental Health Chapter 4. African Americans and Substance Use Chapter 5. Black Psychiatrists Responding to the Mental Health Impact of Natural and Human-Caused Disasters and Systemic Inequities II. Responding to the Realities of Racism Chapter 6.

Application of an Emotional Competence Framework to Racism Chapter 7. Centering Blackness in Mental Health Equity Chapter 8. The Media Is the Message: Film and TV Influences on Black Mental Health III. A Call to Research Chapter 9. The Work and Legacy of Dr. Carl Bell Part 1: Building a Better Village Part 2: Public Health Efforts Chapter 10. Will Advances in Research Address Racial Disparities? Chapter 11. Identities at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Mental Illness: Remembering Chester Pierce IV.

Racism, Leadership, and Organized Psychiatry Chapter 12. Reflections on the Origin of the Black Psychiatrists of America Chapter 13. The Urgency of Responsible Leadership in American Psychiatry: Racial Bias and the Biopsychosocial Crises Impacting Mental Health in Communities of Color Chapter 14. The Caravan Moves On: From Solomon Carter Fuller to Psychiatry in the Twenty-First Century Chapter 15. Nigrescence and the Future of American Psychiatry Appendix: Solomon Carter Fuller Award Lecturers.