Mad with Freedom : The Political Economy of Blackness, Insanity, and Civil Rights in the U.S. South, 1840–1940

Name: Mad with Freedom
Brand: Louisiana State University Press
SKU: 9780807177747
Price: 6500 KES
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ISBN: 9780807177747

by Élodie Edwards-Grossi

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Format Hardback

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

Product Classification: History of the Americas Health, illness or addiction: social aspects Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Illness & addiction: social aspects Ethnic studies Political science & theory Political science and theory Civics and citizenship Civil rights & citizenship Mental health services History of medicine History 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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