03180nam 2200709Ia 450 991078192420332120230721032239.0979-88-908810-9-00-8078-8434-0(CKB)1000000000487666(EBL)354078(OCoLC)476175584(SSID)ssj0000265550(PQKBManifestationID)11222015(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000265550(PQKBWorkID)10299702(PQKB)10328247(Au-PeEL)EBL354078(CaPaEBR)ebr10273392(CaONFJC)MIL929881(MiAaPQ)EBC354078(EXLCZ)99100000000048766620070507d2007 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrUnspeakable[electronic resource] the story of Junius Wilson /Susan Burch and Hannah JoynerChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20071 online resource (315 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4696-2638-1 0-8078-3155-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-294) and index.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; IndexJunius 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, commDeafNorth CarolinaGreensboroBiographyAfrican AmericansNorth CarolinaGreensboroBiographyRacismSouthern StatesCase studiesPeople with disabilitiesAbuse ofUnited StatesCase studiesMentally illAbuse ofUnited StatesCase studiesDiagnostic errorsUnited StatesCase studiesGreensboro (N.C.)BiographyGreensboro (N.C.)Race relationsHistory20th centurySouthern StatesRace relationsHistory20th centuryDeafAfrican AmericansRacismPeople with disabilitiesAbuse ofMentally illAbuse ofDiagnostic errors362.42092Burch Susan889497Joyner Hannah1516083MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781924203321Unspeakable3752312UNINA