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Research & Reading List- Lynching and Lunacy: Mab Segrest on the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry

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Season 1, Episode 114: Lynching and Lunacy: Mab Segrest on the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry

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Description:Acclaimed “Race Traitor” author, Mab Segrest, takes Laura through deep south to trace the racist roots of American psychiatry. They explore the infamous state mental hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia and visit with Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama to consider how our society’s mental and political health relate to history. Segrest’s newest book is Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum, due out April 2020.

Guests:

Mab Segrest, Author and gender studies scholar, professor emeritus of gender and women’s studies at Connecticut College and the author of Administrations of Lunacy and Memoir of a Race Traitor (both from The New Press). A longtime activist in social justice movements and a past fellow at the National Humanities Center, she lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned.