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 Submitted by Jack Kurz. I pledge...
+Question 1. Did the civil war cause opinions of “insane” African American patients to worsen or were these opinions already settled?
+Question 2: With the rise in the belief that black people were less susceptible to “insanity” how would this change how psychologists treated or diagnosed insanity in African American patients?
+Submitted by Griffin Nameroff
+,) Saint Elizabeth was regarded as the “National Asylum” and was the epicenter of research and education on mental health. Do to this fact I must ask was their patients that were transferred to this hospital from other institutions across the United States, or was it purely based on the population of Washington D.C
+.) I really don’t understand the 19th century argument that minorities were immune to mental illness due to “Non-stressful agrian” lives, when insanity was prominent in white that were farmers before and after the civil war? That along side the concept of “Cultural-Stasis” just honestly confuses me, like what does that mean?
+- Submitted by Parker Siebenschuh
+.) In Summer's reading, there is a discussion of the "black psyche", and how it is described as "alien" and "fundamentally abnormal". What do you think made the black psyche "abnormal" and "alien"? Do you think the racist atmosphere of the asylum had an impact on or any form of correlation with it?
+.) Also in Summer's reading, there is the notion in which freedom was the main cause of insanity in African Americans. Is there any evidence which can debunk this?
+Submitted by Erica Banks. I pledge....
+) Since environment was believed to influence one’s mental health, why does it appear so difficult for the physicians to assume that the increase in African American asylum patients was due to the fact that their living environments were worse than that of white patients? While they do seem to make that connection, it is very loose and does not mention the fact that African American living environments were worse often due to society and not their own ambitions or choice. (Summers)
+) Were African American patients stigmatized along with white and other mentally patients or were they stigmatized within their category? (Summers)
+Submitted by Mallory Karnei. I pledge…
+. Throughout the Gonaver reading, it is clear that the mental health is intersectional, but in the middle of that is race. Dr. Francis Stribing stated that the "Colored Insane [are] a class now rapidly increasing," while arguing for a new and separate facility for black patients in Virginia (177). Summers also noted that by racializing the disease, you racialize the sufferer. Why is this still sometimes the narrative that is being believed by doctors (in the mental health field or otherwise)?
+. Going along with the last question, there was an argument brought forward that the mental health of black men and women was suffering because of the affects of freedom on them after slavery. Why do you think this was thought?
+I pledge… Carson Berrier