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100 1 _aEdwards-Grossi, �Elodie,
_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aMad with freedom :
_bthe political economy of Blackness, insanity, and civil rights in the U.S. South, 1840-1940 /
_c�Elodie Edwards-Grossi.
246 3 0 _aPolitical economy of Blackness, insanity, and civil rights in the U.S. South, 1840-1940
264 1 _aBaton Rouge :
_bLouisiana State University Press,
_c[2023]
300 _a1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) :
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336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aThe "Sane Slaves": Theories about Madness and Blackness, 1800-1860 -- The Strange Career of the 1840 Census Statistics -- The Opening of Psychiatric Institutions for Black Patients in the South, 1860-1880 -- Race and Moral Treatment in Asylums and Hospitals in the South, 1870-1940 -- The Fabric of Epidemiological Otherness and Pathological Bodies, 1880-1940 -- Epilogue: An Everlasting Story: Race and Psychiatry in the United States Today.
520 _a"�Elodie Edwards-Grossi's Mad with Freedom explores the largely unknown social history of racialized theories on insanity in the segregated South. Edwards-Grossi analyzes the medicalization of the Black body from the 1840s until the 1920s, revealing the politicization of science and psychiatric practices, notably concerning notions of citizenship, responsibilities, and civil rights. She begins when theories on insanity started to develop in the 1840s and continues until the 1920s, when they gradually became standardized and emerged as a distinct medical field. In doing so, Edwards-Grossi unites an institutional history of psychiatric spaces in the South that confined Black patients with an intellectual history of early psychiatric theories that defined the Black body as a locus for specific pathologies. Mad with Freedom explores how the use of race in studies on insanity and the brain in the 1840s and 1850s gave birth to politically charged theories on the differential biology and pathologies of white and Black brains. These theories, which emerged predominantly in southern medical schools, gained a second lease on life in the 1860s when anti-abolitionists used them to proclaim that Blacks became insane when confronted with the complexities of freedom, thus politicizing a controversial medical argument. Edwards-Grossi also reveals the localized and subtle techniques of resistance employed later by Black patients to confront medical power by either refusing to work or vocalizing their distress at being categorized as 'Black' and treated as such in these segregated institutions. Her work shows the continuous politicization of science and theories on insanity in the context of Reconstruction and the Jim Crow South. Mad with Freedom explores the gradual evolution of white and Black insanity theories into a more complex and autonomous science--following the standardization of international classifications in the 1890s--which southern asylums and hospitals gradually adopted. The study thus reveals the constant and complex negotiations at stake as physicians operated between the use of standardized categories of diseases and treatments on the one hand and localized, racialized classifications and theories on Black bodies on the other"--
_cProvided by publisher.
588 _aDescription based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 05, 2022).
590 _aAdded to collection customer.56279.3
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