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`Drapetomania' puts urban blues on stage
Newspaper article from: Bay State Banner; 11/2/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...State Banner 11-02-1995 `Drapetomania' puts urban blues on stage. The provocative Quraysh Ali & Drapetomania, who performed at the newly...escape from hell holes. The word "drapetomania" is taken from the vocabulary...
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Human conduct is moral issue
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/9/1992; ; 612 words
; ...reasoning, so it turned down the insanity plea. Now to drapetomania. It should not be strange that few people have ever heard of drapetomania because there have been no cases of drapetomania in the United States for more than a century. According...
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Book Exposes Modern Roots of Racism and Violence: Are our tax dollars
Newspaper article from: Chicago Citizen; 7/9/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...to escape to freedom was labeled a mental illness called `drapetomania' (runaway mania). Today, the various reactions by African...acceptable for psychiatrists to invent the so-called disease `drapetomania.' Today, it is both culturally and financially acceptable...
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Play it again, fans, at Chicago sports exhibit
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/28/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...books, sculpture, prints and paintings in Runaway Slave/ Drapetomania: The Quest for Freedom, opening today at the DuSable Museum...peculiarities of the Negro race." In the article, the word "drapetomania" was created from the Greek words "drapeto" (meaning...
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Fence Post.(News)(Letter to the Editor)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 9/30/2002; 700+ words
; ...boy. When slavery was legal in the United States, physicians slapped the label of "drapetomania" on slaves who constantly tried to escape. Drapetomania was a politically contrived disease to keep slaves in their place - just like ADHD...
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Book Exposes Modern Roots Of Racism And Violence: Are our tax dollars
Newspaper article from: Sun Reporter, The; 7/13/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...to escape to freedom was labeled a mental illness called "drapetomania" (runaway mania). Today, the various reactions by African...acceptable for psychiatrists to invent the so-called disease `drapetomania.' Today, it is both culturally and financially acceptable...
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Psychiatry's Betrayal Creating Racism: The Modern Roots Of Racism And
Newspaper article from: New York Beacon, The; 8/9/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...to escape to freedom was labeled a mental illness called `drapetomania' (runaway mania). Today, the various reactions by African...acceptable for psychiatrists to invent the so-called disease, `drapetomania.' Today, it is both culturally and financially acceptable...
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Damming the rivers of racism.(THE ETHICAL WAY)
Magazine article from: Clinical Psychiatry News; 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Office of Minority and National Affairs, points to advances in our specialty, such as the elimination of diagnoses like "drapetomania"--flight-from-home madness--from any diagnostic manual. On the other hand, Dr. Primm notes that we still have...
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Why, Even Today, Many Blacks Are Wary About American Medicine
Magazine article from: The Crisis; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...them insane. They created such diagnoses as "sable melancholy" for slaves who were unhappy with their lot in life and "drapetomania" for those who repeatedly tried to escape. The South's leading men of medicine believed Blacks were, at best, inferior...
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Book exposes modern roots of racism, violence
Newspaper article from: Tri-State Defender; 7/12/1995; ; 655 words
; ...regulates behavior and status. In the 1800s, a slave's attempt to escape to freedom was labeled a mental illness called 'drapetomania' (runaway mania). Today, the various reactions by African Americans to oppression are diagnosed as psychiatric problems...
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