Colored Insane : Slavery, Asylums, and Mental Illness in the Nineteenth Century

Name: Colored Insane : Slavery, Asylums, and Mental Illness in the Nineteenth Century
Brand: Columbia University Press

Columbia University Press

The nineteenth century in the United States witnessed the end of slavery and the expansion of another form of confinement: the asylum. How did enslaved and free Black people encounter psychiatric institutions? How were notions of mental disability used to reinforce slavery and Jim Crow? And how did Black people express alternative ideas about individual and communal mental health?Diana Martha Louis explores Black experiences and views of mental disability in the nineteenth century, shedding light on the lives and struggles of the \u201Ccolored insane.\u201D She demonstrates how psychiatric discourses made Blacks \u201Cmad\u201D both by inflicting real psychological harm within asylums, plantations, jails, and society writ large and by constructing mental disorders according to prevailing notions of race,\n\nColored Insane\nSlavery, Asylums, and Mental Illness in the Nineteenth Century\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Roya;