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Title: | The Black Insane in the Cape, 1891-1920 |
Author: | Swartz, Sally |
Year: | 1995 |
Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Studies |
Volume: | 21 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | September |
Pages: | 399-415 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | South Africa The Cape |
Subjects: | Blacks racism psychiatry Health and Nutrition Ethnic and Race Relations History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/2637251 |
Abstract: | This paper examines the treatment of the black insane in asylums in the Cape Colony (South Africa) during the period from 1891 to 1920. During this time racial segregation and differentiated treatment of white and black mental patients was consolidated. The paper discusses the argument of racial and cultural difference which was used to justify differences in resources allocated to white and black asylums and describes the use of black patients as an unpaid labour force. Furthermore, it uses case material to illustrate ways in which perceptions of the black insane affected their treatment. In conclusion, comments are presented on the discursive construction of black 'insanity' and black 'mentality'. Data are derived from correspondence, annual reports and documentation on individual patients. Notes, ref., sum. |