Today, 90 percent of psychiatric beds are located in jails and prisons across the United States, institutions that confine disproportionate numbers of African Americans. After more than a decade of research, the celebrated scholar and activist Mab Segrest locates the deep historical roots of this startling fact, turning her sights on a long-forgotten cauldron of racial ideology: the state mental asylum system in which psychiatry was born and whose influences extend into America's troubled present.
ISBN: | 9781620972977 |
Publisher: | The New Press |
Imprint: | The New Press |
Published date: | 14 Apr 2020 |
DEWEY: | 362.2109758573 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | xviii, 396 |
Weight: | 666g |
Height: | 163mm |
Width: | 235mm |
Spine width: | 35mm |