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 30th, 2022
Print length
246 Pages
Weight
516 grams
Dimensions
15.90 x 23.70 x 2.30 cms
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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.
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