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""In clear, sober prose, Smith merges policy, clinical science, and patient experience to analyze racism and psychiatry's symbiotic relationship. Working against immense silences in the archive, Smith unearths the voices of Black patients and their advocates, providing vital insight into how they faced and resisted their confinements and treatments. Jim Crow in the Asylum is required reading for anyone interested in the histories of psychiatry, the South, and race.""--Jonathan Sadowsky, Case Western Reserve University ""This is the best mixture of careful social history with an intellectual and theoretical approach to the history of racism and psychiatry that I have seen. The book will be a model for every historian--a must-read.""--Susan M. Reverby, author of Co-Conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman

""This is the best mixture of careful social history with an intellectual and theoretical approach to the history of racism and psychiatry that I have seen. The book will be a model for every historian--a must-read.""--Susan M. Reverby, author of Co-Conspirator for Justice: The Revolutionary Life of Dr. Alan Berkman

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Kylie M. Smith is associate professor and director of the Center for Healthcare History and Policy at Emory University.

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