Mad with Freedom - The Political Economy of Blackness, Insanity, and Civil Rights in the U.S. South, 1840-1940 (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Louisiana State University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Jules and Frances Landry Award
Release date:	November 2022
Authors:	Elodie Edwards-Grossi
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	246
ISBN-13:	978-0-8071-7774-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > Mental health services Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > Civil rights & citizenship Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	0-8071-7774-1
Barcode:	9780807177747

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