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Unspeakable

by Susan Burch, Hannah Joyner

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Tells the story of a deaf African-American man born in the Jim Crow South who, though sane, was incarcerated in a North Carolina state hospital for the insane for nearly all of his life.

Race relationsMentally illHistoryDeafRacismPeople with disabilitiesAbuse ofDiagnostic errorsAfrican AmericansBiographyCase studiesAfrican americans, north carolina