Mad with Freedom : The Political Economy of Blackness, Insanity, and Civil Rights in the U.S. South, 1840–1940
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Jules and Frances Landry Award
ISBN-10
0807177741
ISBN-13
9780807177747
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Imprint
Louisiana State University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 2nd, 2022
Print length
246 Pages
Weight
516 grams
Dimensions
15.90 x 23.70 x 2.30 cms
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History of the AmericasHealth, illness or addiction: social aspectsEthnic studies / EthnicityIllness & addiction: social aspectsEthnic studiesPolitical science & theoryPolitical science and theoryCivics and citizenshipCivil rights & citizenshipMental health servicesHistory of medicineHistory of the Americas
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The use of race in studies of insanity in the 1840s and 1850s gave rise to politically charged theories on the differential biology and pathologies of brains in whites and Blacks. This book explores the largely unknown social history of these racialized theories on insanity in the segregated South.
The use of race in studies of insanity in the 1840s and 1850s gave rise to politically charged theories on the differential biology and pathologies of brains in whites and Blacks. In Mad with Freedom, Élodie Edwards-Grossi explores the largely unknown social history of these racialized theories on insanity in the segregated South. She unites an institutional history of psychiatric spaces in the South that housed Black patients with an intellectual history of early psychiatric theories that defined the Black body as a locus for specific pathologies. Edwards-Grossi also reveals the subtle, localized techniques of resistance later employed by Black patients to confront medical power. Her work shows the continuous politicization of science and theories on insanity in the context of Reconstruction and the Jim Crow South.
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