Jim Crow in the Asylum
There is a complicated history of racism and psychiatric healthcare in the Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. The asylums of the Jim Crow era employed African American men and women; served as places of treatment and care for African Americans with psychiatric illnesses; and, in...
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| description | There is a complicated history of racism and psychiatric healthcare in the Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. The asylums of the Jim Crow era employed African American men and women; served as places of treatment and care for African Americans with psychiatric illnesses; and, inevitably, were places of social control. Black people who lived and worked in these facilities needed to negotiate complex relationships of racism with their own notions of community, mental health, and healing. Kylie M. Smith mixes exhaustive archival research, interviews, and policy analysis to offer a comprehensive look at how racism affected Black Southerners with mental illness during the Jim Crow era. Complicated legal, political, and medical changes in the late twentieth century turned mental health services into a battlefield between political ideology and psychiatric treatment approaches, with the fallout having long-term consequences for patient outcomes. Smith argues that patterns of racially motivated abuse and neglect of mentally ill African Americans took shape during this era and continue to the present day. As the mentally ill become increasingly incarcerated,Jim Crow in the Asylum reminds readers that, for many Black Southerners, having a mental illness was and still tantamount to committing a crime. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1705682026-05-01T05:54:19Z Jim Crow in the Asylum Smith, Kylie M. History of psychiatry medical civil rights civil rights in Mississippi Georgia Alabama psychiatric hospitals racial segregation community mental health antiracist psychiatry patients rights thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBQ Medicolegal issues thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WQ Local and family history, nostalgia::WQH Local history thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFN Health, illness and addiction: social aspects There is a complicated history of racism and psychiatric healthcare in the Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. The asylums of the Jim Crow era employed African American men and women; served as places of treatment and care for African Americans with psychiatric illnesses; and, inevitably, were places of social control. Black people who lived and worked in these facilities needed to negotiate complex relationships of racism with their own notions of community, mental health, and healing. Kylie M. Smith mixes exhaustive archival research, interviews, and policy analysis to offer a comprehensive look at how racism affected Black Southerners with mental illness during the Jim Crow era. Complicated legal, political, and medical changes in the late twentieth century turned mental health services into a battlefield between political ideology and psychiatric treatment approaches, with the fallout having long-term consequences for patient outcomes. Smith argues that patterns of racially motivated abuse and neglect of mentally ill African Americans took shape during this era and continue to the present day. As the mentally ill become increasingly incarcerated,Jim Crow in the Asylum reminds readers that, for many Black Southerners, having a mental illness was and still tantamount to committing a crime. 2026-01-01T05:21:12Z 2026-01-01T05:21:12Z 2025-12-31T11:14:30Z 20260113 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/109498 9781469689227 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/170568 eng Studies in Social Medicine open access The University of North Carolina Press The University of North Carolina Press 10.5149/9781469689210_Smith 10.5149/9781469689210_Smith f46e5319-8d09-4c63-b9f2-a13480694ab4 be707e9f-16de-4ab5-ae7a-cb54f5a49b9e 9781469689227 The University of North Carolina Press 342 Chapel Hill [...] open access |
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