{"672030":{"#nid":"672030","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKylie Smith is an associate professor, director of the Center for Healthcare History and Policy in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, and associate faculty in the history department at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned her Ph.D. in the history of psychiatry in Australia and is the author of the award-winning book \u003Cem\u003ETalking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing\u003C\/em\u003E published by Rutgers University Press in 2020. Her new book entitled \u003Cem\u003EJim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South\u003C\/em\u003E will be published by UNC Press early in 2025 and is supported by the G13 Grant from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 1967 a government inspector reported that conditions for Black patients in psychiatric hospitals in Alabama were the worst she\u2019d ever seen, not just in terms of the physical conditions but in the relationships between staff and patients. Her report and a subsequent court case revealed the many ways that even psychiatric practices in the American South could not escape the long shadow of the plantation as patients were put to work, shot, beaten, and left to die.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis government inspection was the starting point for Smith\u2019s new book\u003Cem\u003E Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South. \u003C\/em\u003EThe project draws on original records, court cases, and personal testimony from Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, which demonstrate the racist ideas that underpinned the treatment of African Americans with mental illness and saw psychiatric hospitals used as dumping grounds for some of the South\u0027s most vulnerable people.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the same time, Black families, communities, and activists sought to end Jim Crow in the Asylum and to fight back against practices of dehumanization and social death. In this fight, the internal racism of psychiatry itself was exposed, as diagnostic classifications and treatment modalities reinforced stereotypes about the Black mind and body. Smith will talk about some of the ethical and archival issues associated with undertaking this kind of research and analyze the significance of this long historical context for disparities in mental health today.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFeatures Kylie Smith, associate professor and director of the Center for Healthcare History and Policy at Emory University, on \u0022Jim Crow in the Asylum,\u0022 exploring the process of desegregation and deinstitutionalization in state psychiatric hospitals in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Features Kylie Smith, associate professor and director of the Center for Healthcare History and Policy at Emory University, on \u0022Jim Crow in the Asylum.\u0022"}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2024-01-10 20:28:53","changed_gmt":"2024-09-18 16:45:48","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2024-11-04T16:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2024-11-04T17:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2024-11-04T17:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2024-11-04 21:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2024-11-04 22:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2024-11-04 22:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Crosland G120, Wilby Classroom","extras":[],"hg_media":{"675015":{"id":"675015","type":"image","title":"hsoc-speaker-series-fall-2024-jim-crow-asylum.png","body":null,"created":"1726677933","gmt_created":"2024-09-18 16:45:33","changed":"1726677933","gmt_changed":"2024-09-18 16:45:33","alt":"Event Flyer","file":{"fid":"258600","name":"hsoc-speaker-series-fall-2024-jim-crow-asylum.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/09\/18\/hsoc-speaker-series-fall-2024-jim-crow-asylum.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/09\/18\/hsoc-speaker-series-fall-2024-jim-crow-asylum.png","mime":"image\/png","size":8892564,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/09\/18\/hsoc-speaker-series-fall-2024-jim-crow-asylum.png?itok=bYdzkuFc"}}},"media_ids":["675015"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGerm\u00e1n Vergara\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:vergara@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Evergara@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}