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This document provides an introduction and overview for a guide on collecting oral histories from African American psychiatric survivors. It discusses the importance of understanding a person's history and context before making judgments. It also highlights how official histories have often excluded or misrepresented the experiences of African Americans. The introduction notes some of the troubling ways African Americans have been pathologized in the past by the psychiatric community, such as through the diagnosis of diseases like "drapetomania" and how those ideas still influence practices today. It outlines the guide's goals of using oral histories to restore agency, visibility and healing to African American communities.
