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Using legal records, institutional files, and extensive oral history interviews—some conducted in sign language—Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner piece together the story of a deaf man accused in 1925 of attempted rape, found insane at a lunacy hearing, committed to the criminal ward of the State Hospital for the Colored Insane, castrated, forced to labor for the institution, and held at the hospital for more than seven decades. Junius Wilson's life was shaped by some of the major developments of twentieth-century America: Jim Crow segregation, the civil rights movement, deinstitutionalization, the rise of professional social work, and the emergence of the deaf and disability rights movements. In addition to offering a bottom-up history of life in a segregated mental institution, Burch and Joyner's work also enriches the traditional interpretation of Jim Crow by highlighting the complicated intersections of race and disability as well as of community and language.
This moving study expands the boundaries of what biography can and should be. There is much to learn and remember about Junius Wilson—and the countless others who have lived unspeakable histories.
- Susan Burch - Author
- Hannah Joyner - Author
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- Release date: November 19, 2007
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- ISBN: 9780807884348
- File size: 3301 KB
- Release date: November 19, 2007
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- ISBN: 9780807884348
- File size: 3301 KB
- Release date: November 19, 2007
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