Unspeakable : the story of Junius Wilson / Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burch, Susan.

Contributor:

Joyner, Hannah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deaf people--North Carolina--Greensboro--Biography.

African Americans--North Carolina--Greensboro--Biography.

Racism--Southern States--Case studies.

People with disabilities--Abuse of--United States--Case studies.

Mentally ill--Abuse of--United States--Case studies.

Diagnostic errors--United States--Case studies.

Greensboro (N.C.)--Biography.

Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century.

Southern States--Race relations--History--20th century.

Wilson, Junius, 1908-2001.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Junius Wilson (1908-2001) spent seventy-six years at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina, including six in the criminal ward. He had never been declared insane by a medical professional or found guilty of any criminal charge. But he was deaf and black in the Jim Crow South. Unspeakable is the story of his life.Using legal records, institutional files, and extensive oral history interviews--some conducted in sign language--Susan Burch and Hannah Joyner piece together the story of a deaf man accused in 1925 of attempted rape, found insane at a lunacy hearing, comm

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1 One Misstep; 2 From One Institution to Another; 3 Walls; 4 Renaming, Remaining; 5 Classified; 6 Vital Signs; 7 Reinterpreting; 8 New Places, New Faces; 9 Almost Home; 10 Judgments; 11 The End?; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-294) and index.

ISBN:

9798890881090

9780807884348

0807884340

OCLC:

476175584