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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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Nineteenth century review of mental health care for African Americans: a legacy of service and policy barriers.
Magazine article from: Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Cartwright in the De Bow's Review observed two "diseases of the mind" which he associated with slaves: drapetomania and dysaethesia aethiopica (as cited by Stampp, 1961). Specifically, drapetomania was defined as "sulky and d
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Overlooking Racism May Lead to Undiagnosed Mental Health Disorders.
News Wire article from: AScribe Health News Service; 9/15/2003; 700+ words
; ...often defines normalcy and disease. He cites the example of white psychiatrists in the 19th century who claimed black slaves suffered from "drapetomania" - a "psychiatric disorder indicated by a desire to run away from slavery."
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