Colored Insane: Slavery, Asylums, and Mental Illness in the Nineteenth Century - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Diana Martha LouisSeries:Race, Inequality, and Health #12Publish date:10/28/2025Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231212878ISBN-10:231212879UPC:9780231212878Book Category:History, MedicalBook Subcategory:African American & Black, United States, PsychiatryBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCE24E6ZCG
Colored Insane: Slavery, Asylums, and Mental Illness in the Nineteenth Century
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...Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231212878ISBN-10:231212879UPC:9780231212878Book Category:History, MedicalBook Subcategory:African American & Black, United States, PsychiatryBook Topic:19th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.72 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCE24E6ZCG
Diana Martha Louis is an assistant professor of women's and gender studies at the University of Michigan.
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