{"672030":{"#nid":"672030","#data":{"type":"event","title":"School of History and Sociology Spring 2024 Speaker Series","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKylie Smith is an associate professor, director of the Center for Healthcare History and Policy in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, and associate faculty in the history department at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned her Ph.D. in the history of psychiatry in Australia and is the author of the award-winning book \u003Cem\u003ETalking Therapy: Knowledge and Power in American Psychiatric Nursing\u003C\/em\u003E published by Rutgers University Press in 2020. Her new book entitled \u003Cem\u003EJim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South\u003C\/em\u003E will be published by UNC Press early in 2025 and is supported by the G13 Grant from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch2\u003EAbstract\u003C\/h2\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s sought to end racial segregation in all U.S. public institutions, including hospitals. Psychiatric hospitals became political battlegrounds over segregation and patients\u0027 rights, setting the scene for disparities that continue today.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EJim Crow in the Asylum\u003C\/em\u003E explores the process of desegregation and deinstitutionalization in state psychiatric hospitals in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. It draws on original records, court cases, and personal testimony to expose the racist ideas that underpinned the treatment of African Americans with mental illness and saw psychiatric hospitals used as dumping grounds for some of the South\u0027s most vulnerable people.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFeaturing Kylie Smith on \u0022Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Featuring Kylie Smith on \u0022Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South.\u0022"}],"uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2024-01-10 20:28:53","changed_gmt":"2024-01-11 17:35:37","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2024-03-11T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2024-03-11T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2024-03-11T17:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2024-03-11 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2024-03-11 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2024-03-11 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Crosland 7130 and Online","extras":[],"hg_media":{"672737":{"id":"672737","type":"image","title":"hsoc-speaker-series-spring-2024.png","body":null,"created":"1704994513","gmt_created":"2024-01-11 17:35:13","changed":"1704994513","gmt_changed":"2024-01-11 17:35:13","alt":"Event flyer","file":{"fid":"256033","name":"hsoc-speaker-series-spring-2024.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/01\/11\/hsoc-speaker-series-spring-2024.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/01\/11\/hsoc-speaker-series-spring-2024.png","mime":"image\/png","size":6609431,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/01\/11\/hsoc-speaker-series-spring-2024.png?itok=ehwAoW5k"}}},"media_ids":["672737"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gatech.zoom.us\/j\/94731130876","title":"Join Online"}],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGerm\u00e1n Vergara\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:vergara@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Evergara@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}