Theses and Dissertations
Issuing Body
Mississippi State University
Advisor
Ward, Jason Morgan
Committee Member
Marcus, Alan I.
Committee Member
Greene, Alison Collis
Committee Member
Ridner, Judith A.
Date of Degree
5-4-2018
Document Type
Dissertation - Open Access
Major
History
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
College
College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Department of History
Abstract
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.
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11668/17626
Recommended Citation
Murphy, Michael Thomas, "Inhospitable in the Hospitality State: The Mississippi State Hospital in the Jim Crow South, 1865-1966" (2018). Theses and Dissertations. 2734.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/td/2734
Comments
White Supremacy||African American||Asylum||Mississippi||Race Relations||Racial Politics||Madness||Insanity||Jim Crow||Segregation||Civil Rights||Medicine||Mental Health||Mental Illness||State Hospital