Events

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

  • Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South

    Carslaw Building 450 Carslaw Building (F07), Level 4, Room 450, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Abstract: “Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South” documents the impact of racial segregation and the fight for medical civil rights in the state psychiatric hospitals in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi between 1948 and 1972. Drawing on extensive archival and legal records, as well as first-hand accounts, Kylie Smith explores the […]