Livres publiés / Books
Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, 2021
Bad Brains analyzes the contemporary legacies of health classifications, routines and practices in mental health clinics and psychiatric hospitals today. The book looks at how psychiatric treatments targeting African-American populations have evolved following the Great Migration, until the 21st-century.
Louisiana University Press, Baton Rouge, 2022. Jules and Landry Award for 2023.
Mad with Freedom explores the long-abiding history of differential treatments and access to psychiatric care for African American patients in the US, from the 19th century to the early 20th century. The book uncovers the history of psychiatric institutions that treated white and African American patients separately in the U.S. South, and more specifically in Virginia, North Carolina and Louisiana.