Introduction. Fashioning the American Joan of Arc

This article tells the story of the racialized workspaces specific to black and white patients in the psychiatric hospitals and asylums of the US South between 1870 and 1910. Using two archival materials collected at the Central State Asylum for Colored Insane, Virginia, and the Central Louisiana S...

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Autores principales: Louis-Dimitrov, Delphine, Jenn, Ronald
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Lenguaje:Français
Publicado: 2019
Acceso en línea:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sumario:This article tells the story of the racialized workspaces specific to black and white patients in the psychiatric hospitals and asylums of the US South between 1870 and 1910. Using two archival materials collected at the Central State Asylum for Colored Insane, Virginia, and the Central Louisiana State Hospital founded in Pineville, Louisiana, 1906, this essay studies the way the treatments of black behaviors by “therapeutic” work were set up and implemented in these new segregated spaces.