Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 4: The Wertham Special
Cathy G. Johnson
Artwork by e jackson.
Drawing a Dialogue is a podcast discussing comics in historical + educational contexts by Cathy G. Johnson and e remus jackson.
Episode 4: Infamously known as the author of the 1954 book Seduction of the Innocent + blamed for the demise of the Golden Age of comics, German psychiatrist Fredric Wertham is more than a censorship scapegoat. Cathy + e discuss his career as a medical psychiatrist, advocate for African American mental healthcare, + talk about the biases + legitimacies behind this controversial figure.
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Episode Citation (chronologically as mentioned in podcast):
Wertham, F. (1954). Seduction of the innocent. New York: Rinehart.
Petersen, R. S. (2011). Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels: A History of Graphic Narratives. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.
"90% of children" - Tilley, C. L. (2012). “Seducing the Innocent: Fredric Wertham and the Falsifications That Helped Condemn Comics.” Information & Culture, (4), 383-413. doi:10.7560/IC47401
Gabriel N. Mendes, Under the Strain of Color - Cornell University Press
Gabriel N. Mendes, interview - New Books Network
Bart Beaty, Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture - University Press of Mississippi
"Reflections on “Emil Kraepelin: Icon and Reality”." American Journal of Psychiatry, 173(3), pp. 300–301
Lerner, R. M. (1986). Concepts and theories of human development. New York: Random House.
"Behaviorism," this was a definition from my professor at Brown University -Cathy G.
Scientific racism - Wikipedia
Nyberg, A. K. (1998). Seal of approval: the history of the comics code. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.
Tilley PDF - Academia
Tof Eklund - ImageTexT
Anastasi, Anne. (1958). Heredity, environment, and the question “How?. Psychological review. 65. 197-208. 10.1037/h0044895.
García Coll, Cynthia & Lamberty, Gontran & Jenkins, Renee & Pipes McAdoo, Harriet & Crnic, Keith & Wasik, Barbara & Vazquez Garcia, Heidie. (1996). An Integrative Model for the Study of Developmental Competencies in Minority Children. Child development. 67. 1891-914. 10.2307/1131600. - PDF
Precious Stephens - gnovis
Killing Us Softly - Link
American Psychological Association (correction: in the podcast, we say "Psychology Today") - Albert Bandura, Violence in the Media