Based at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry and sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Emory College Office of Faculty, our initiative aims to support the development and publication of digital and open access monographs by faculty at metro-Atlanta institutions.
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In Surviving Revolution (Cornell University Press), Denise Davidson explores how two wealthy and well-connected families with roots in Lyon responded to the French Revolution and the resulting transformations.
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In Ascetic Images (SUNY Press), Achille Castaldo examines the narrative articulation of social invisibility in the works by two of the most influential Italian cultural producers of the twentieth century: writer Anna Maria Ortese and filmmaker Roberto Rossellini.
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In Postcolonial Derrida (Edinburgh University Press), Sean Meighoo brings Derrida into conversation with postcolonial thinkers and writers from the Caribbean, Africa and Asia while crossing disciplinary boundaries between philosophy, literature and postcolonial theory.
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Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South
There is a complicated history of racism and psychiatric healthcare in the Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. The asylums of the Jim Crow era employed African American men and women; served as places of treatment and care for African Americans with psychiatric illnesses; and, inevitably, were places of social control. Black people who lived and worked in these facilities needed to negotiate complex relationships of racism with their own notions of community, mental health, and healing.Kylie M. Smith mixes exhaustive archival research, interviews, and policy analysis to offer a comprehensive look at how racism affected Black Southerners with mental illness during the Jim Crow era. As the mentally ill become increasingly incarcerated, Jim Crow in the Asylum reminds readers that, for many Black Southerners, having a mental illness was—and still is—tantamount to committing a crime.
