Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum

by Mab Segrest

Book Overview

A scathing and original look at the racist origins of psychiatry, through the story of the largest mental institution in the world

Mab Segrest's Memoir of a Race Traitor changed the way we think about struggles against white supremacy. Now, after more than a decade of research, Segrest turns her sights on a long-forgotten cauldron of racial ideology, one whose influences extend into our troubled present.

In December 1841, the Georgia...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1620972972
• ISBN13: 9781620972977
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"