Thesis ID: CBB001567578

Mental Death: Slavery, Madness and State Violence in the United States (2014)

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Reed, Adam Metcalfe (Author)


Haraway, Donna Jeanne
University of California, Santa Cruz
Davis, Angela Y.
Arondekar, Anjali R
Davis, Angela Y.
Arondekar, Anjali R


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Advisor: Haraway, Donna J; Committee Members: Davis, Angela Y., Arondekar, Anjali R.
Physical Details: 287 pp.
Language: English

In this dissertation, I analyzing the invagination of slavery and madness as constitutive of the political, medical, economic, legal and literary institutions of the United States. In my introduction, I discuss my previous project concerning all black mental institutions that emerged in the American South after Reconstruction. My first chapter, "Haunting Asylums: Madness, Slavery and the Archive," addresses my difficulties with the fragmented records of the racially segregated mental asylums and how figurations of the ghost or the inhuman failed to provide me with a salvific moment. In Chapter 2, "Compounds of Madness and Race: Governing Species, Disease and Sexuality in the Early Republic," I map the epistemic ground of race, mind and nation in the Revolutionary-era United States. My third chapter, "Worse than Useless, Too Much Sense: Enslaved Insanity in Plantations, Courtrooms and Asylums" is the culmination of previous two, where I trace the admission and treatment records of a sixteen-year-old slave interned in a mental asylum to the discourses and institutions surrounding the internal slave trade. I conclude by discussing two deaths separated by two centuries but connected by the violent conjunction of antiblackness and madness.

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Description Cited in Dissertation Abstracts International-A 76/02(E), Aug 2015. Proquest Document ID: 1620907946.


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Authors & Contributors
Summers, Martin
Mooney, Katherine C.
Silvano, Giovanni
Brewer, Amanda Lynn
Evans, Jazmin Antwynette
Kimani S. K. Nehusi
Concepts
Psychiatric hospitals
Psychiatry
Mental disorders and diseases
Medicine and race
African Americans
African Americans and science
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Progressive Era (1890s-1920s)
21st century
Places
United States
Southern states (U.S.)
Ohio (U.S.)
New Zealand
Washington, D. C. (U.S.)
Georgia (U.S.)
Institutions
McLean Hospital (Belmont, Mass.)
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