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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781924203321

Autore

Burch Susan

Titolo

Unspeakable [[electronic resource] ] : the story of Junius Wilson / / Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007

ISBN

979-88-908810-9-0

0-8078-8434-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JoynerHannah

Disciplina

362.42092

Soggetti

Deaf - North Carolina - Greensboro

African Americans - North Carolina - Greensboro

Racism - Southern States

People with disabilities - Abuse of - United States

Mentally ill - Abuse of - United States

Diagnostic errors - United States

Greensboro (N.C.) Biography

Greensboro (N.C.) Race relations History 20th century

Southern States Race relations History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-294) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1 One Misstep; 2 From One Institution to Another; 3 Walls; 4 Renaming, Remaining; 5 Classified; 6 Vital Signs; 7 Reinterpreting; 8 New Places, New Faces; 9 Almost Home; 10 Judgments; 11 The End?; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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, comm