Tracing the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry

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Acclaimed white anti-racist scholar Mab Segrest, author of the influential book Memoir of a Race Traitor, takes Laura through the US South to trace the racist roots of American psychiatry. Together, they explore the infamous state mental hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia, once the largest “insane” asylum in the world, 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 our nation’s history. Segrest’s newest book is Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum.

In this episode:

• Mab Segrest, Author, Memoir of a Race Traitor: Fighting Racism in the American South, and Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum. and gender studies scholar,
• Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative

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