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Mad with Freedom - The Political Economy of Blackness, Insanity, and Civil Rights in the U.S. South, 1840-1940 (Hardcover)
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Mad with Freedom - The Political Economy of Blackness, Insanity, and Civil Rights in the U.S. South, 1840-1940 (Hardcover)
Series: Jules and Frances Landry Award
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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. In Mad with
Freedom, Elodie 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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