Articles, Books

Books and Articles

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This page includes a list of primary and secondary texts pulled from Jstor, Google Scholar, and other scholarly online platforms. The collection includes websites, journals, books and newspapers. These texts explore the intersections of Blackness and disability within medical, educational, and penal institutions. Some of these texts may be behind a paywall. 

Library of Books and Articles:

Alam, A. (2023, March 6). Some autistic adults say doctors may show bias during treatment. Cronkite News - Arizona PBS. https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2023/03/06/autistic-adults-reveal-doctors-common-biases/
Witty, P. A., & Jenkins, M. D. (1935). The Case of “B”—A Gifted Negro Girl. The Journal of Social Psychology, 6(1), 117–124. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.1935.9921630
ERIC. (2017). ERIC EJ1146187: Black and Latino Fathers of Students with Autism: Culturally Responsive Support. http://archive.org/details/ERIC_EJ1146187
Humanities, N. E. for the. (1944, September 22). The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, September 22, 1944, FINAL EDITION, Image 11. 11. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn78002169/1944-09-22/ed-1/seq-11/
Lowe, T. B. (2006). Nineteenth Century Review of Mental Health Care for African Americans: A Legacy of Service and Policy Barriers. Journal of Sociology, 23. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3202&context=jssw&httpsredir=1&referer=
Perzichilli, T. (2020, May 7). The historical roots of racial disparities in the mental health system. Counseling Today. https://ct.counseling.org/2020/05/the-historical-roots-of-racial-disparities-in-the-mental-health-system/
Brooklyn College | “Specimens” and “Peculiar Idiosyncrasies”: Songs of “Blind Tom” Wiggins. (n.d.). Retrieved June 29, 2021, from http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/centers/hitchcock/publications/amr/v40-2/moulton.php
Willoughby, C. D. E. (2018). Running Away from Drapetomania: Samuel A. Cartwright, Medicine, and Race in the Antebellum South. Journal of Southern History, 84(3), 579–614. https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2018.0164
Raz, M. (2020). Psychiatry under the shadow of white supremacy. Nature, 580(7804), 449–450. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01126-w
General (US), O. of the S., Services (US), C. for M. H., & Health (US), N. I. of M. (2001). Chapter 3 Mental Health Care for African Americans. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (US). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK44251/
Ross, J. (2006). The Secrets of St. Agnes. Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 23(12), 14–17. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=21764611&site=eds-live
Farreras, I. G. (2019). The professionalization of psychologists as court personnel: Consequences of the first institutional commitment law for the “feebleminded.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 55(3), 183–198. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.21973
Westpfahl, J. (2017). Separate And Unequal: Segregation In North Carolina’s Asylum System 1856-1905 [ProQuest Dissertations Publishing]. https://search.proquest.com/docview/2007248498?pq-origsite=primo
GONAVER, W. (2018). Now She Is Choked:: Gender and the Normalization of Violence. In The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880 (pp. 112–144). University of North Carolina Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469648460_gonaver.8
GONAVER, W. (2018). Not a Human Being:: Reconstruction and Racism. In The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880 (pp. 173–193). University of North Carolina Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9781469648460_gonaver.10
Roberts, D. E. (1997). Killing the black body: race, reproduction, and the meaning of liberty. Pantheon Books.
Gartner, D. R., Krome-Lukens, A. L., & Delamater, P. L. (2020). Implementation of Eugenic Sterilization in North Carolina: Geographic Proximity to Raleigh and its Association with Female Sterilization During the Mid-20th Century. Southeastern Geographer, 60(3), 254–274. https://doi.org/10.1353/sgo.2020.0020