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Inhospitable In The Hospitality State: The Mississippi State Hospital In The Jim Crow South, 1865-1966, Michael Thomas Murphy
Inhospitable In The Hospitality State: The Mississippi State Hospital In The Jim Crow South, 1865-1966, Michael Thomas Murphy
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This dissertation is an institutional history of the Mississippi State Hospital. Specifically, it is a study of the use of the hospital as an institutional instrument to establish, maintain, reinforce state-sponsored racial segregation and white supremacy during the period of Jim Crow in Mississippi. Mississippi's institution for its mentally ill residents became an instrument to reinforce the state's racially, socially, and economically rigid society.