HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Drapetomania, Reductionism, Individualism
29 Oct 2017
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Immeasurable - a category assigned by others: race is still meaningful, race is constructed in a relational sense, privileging some and degrading others, to a deficit, race is developed to say one group has some power over. Race and mental health another: western psychology and psychiatry largely structured along lines that reflect society"s privileging of certain notions. Samuel cartwright, psy-enecs, and slavery: drapetomania, a disease that caused slaves to run away from their masters, cure: good food and clothings, limited social interaction, dysaethesia aethiopica, those (slaves) who didn"t work well deliberately destroying farm equipment. Stupidness of the mind and insensibility of the nerved induced by the disease : theses ideas are rooted in time - not science, showing one group"s superiority over another group. Colonialism and the psy-ences: the limits of the african mind , until 1960s, reflects psy-ences" understanding of race as a biological category.
