It takes the average reader 4 hours and 34 minutes to read The Protest Psychosis by Jonathan M. Metzl
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness The civil rights era is largely remembered as a time of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots. But a very different civil rights history evolved at the Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Ionia, Michigan. In The Protest Psychosis, psychiatrist and cultural critic Jonathan Metzl tells the shocking story of how schizophrenia became the diagnostic term overwhelmingly applied to African American protesters at Ionia—for political reasons as well as clinical ones. Expertly sifting through a vast...
The Protest Psychosis by Jonathan M. Metzl is 272 pages long, and a total of 68,544 words.
This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 14 minutes to read The Protest Psychosis aloud.
The Protest Psychosis is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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