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The Story of Junius Wilson
出版Univ of North Carolina Press, 2007
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & BlackBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Scientists & PsychologistsBiography & Autobiography / People with DisabilitiesHistory / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)Medical / DiagnosisPsychology / Psychopathology / GeneralSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black StudiesSocial Science / Minority StudiesSocial Science / People with DisabilitiesSocial Science / DiscriminationSocial Science / Race & Ethnic Relations
ISBN08078315579780807831557
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ExV_lITL_n4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Junius Wilson (1908-2001) spent seventy-six years at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina, including six in the criminal ward. He had never been declared insane by a medical professional or found guilty of any criminal charge. But he was deaf and black in the Jim Crow South. Unspeakable is the story of his life.

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.