Unspeakable : the story of Junius Wilson / / Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner

• Autore: Burch Susan
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.42092
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Greensboro (N.C.) Biography; Greensboro (N.C.) Race relations History 20th century; Southern States Race relations History 20th century
• Altri autori: JoynerHannah
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Unspeakable
• ISBN: 979-88-908810-9-0; 0-8078-8434-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809378403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II