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1. Gonaver tells us that Galt’s asylum relied on coerced labor and it medicalized racial and gender bias (193). Galt seems like a deeply flawed man who was torn between recognizing African American humanity and continuing to believe in the institution of slavery as a necessity to achieve a successful institution. What are your thoughts on Galt?
2. Summers introduction (pages 6-7) explains how the post emancipation African American was categorized as “rapidly devolving” back to his ancestral past as a result of the “pressures of living in a modern civilization as free people.” This hypothesis led to black mentally ill patients being characterized as more “dangerous and vicious” than white mental patients. This generalization affected how mentally ill African Americans were housed and treated until well into the 20th century. What negative stereotypical characterizations resulted from this idea of the “violent” African American mental patient?
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