“deinstitutionalization didn’t happen for everyone—at least, not with equal opportunity. And as a population that had effectively been twice damned and dishonored, many Black patients couldn’t benefit from the open arms of deinstitutionalization’s community-centric mental health mantra because they were allegedly responsible for the nation’s apparent moral decline and utter lawlessness.”
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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
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