Mab Segrest - Narrating Asylum History Through an Anti-Racist Lens
Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health
Mad in America
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🗓️ 15 April 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Mab Segrest is Professor Emeritus of Gender and Women's Studies at Connecticut College and the author of Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum, and Memoir of a Race Traitor, both from the New Press. A long time activist in social justice movements and a past fellow at the National Humanities Center, she lives in Durham, North Carolina.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Madden America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry, and social justice. |
| 0:13.9 | Welcome to the Mad in America podcast. |
| 0:16.7 | My name is Leah Harris. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm a correspondent with Mad in America, and I'm so pleased to welcome |
| 0:22.4 | today's guest, Mab Seagrist. Mab Seagrist is Professor Emeritus of Gender and Women's Studies |
| 0:29.6 | at Connecticut College and the author of Administrations of Lunacy and Memoir of a Race Trader, |
| 0:36.8 | both from the new press. |
| 0:38.4 | A longtime activist and social justice movements and a past fellow at the National |
| 0:43.7 | Humanity Center, she lives in Durham, North Carolina. |
| 0:48.0 | Welcome to the podcast, Mab. |
| 0:49.7 | It's great to have you. |
| 0:51.6 | Glad to be here. |
| 0:52.5 | I'm really excited about the conversation. |
| 0:56.7 | Mab, you have written such a sweeping, stunning, anti-racist account of asylum history. Tell us about some of the |
| 1:04.7 | personal and political motivations that you have for writing this book. I'd love to do that, |
| 1:12.3 | but thank you very much first for thinking it's sweeping, stunning account, because it took me a long time to do. And I really |
| 1:19.0 | was determined to have a narrative that was kind of epic and could carry along all the details |
| 1:26.8 | that I had found in the people and their stories |
| 1:29.2 | in a way that was a sweeping history. And people are telling me that I have done that, |
| 1:34.5 | so I'm really happy about that, because that was a necessary thing to do. |
| 1:40.0 | In terms of intertwined personal and political motivations, first was my continuing personal and |
| 1:45.8 | political preoccupation with white supremacy, having been born in Alabama in 1949 and grown up |
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