Junius Wilson, a deaf black man who died in 2001, spent 76 years in a state mental hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina. He had earlier spent six years in a criminal wardafter a charge of attempted rape. Relyingmostly on oral-history interviews, Burch andJoyner reconstruct Wilsons life in an institution where he was castrated, forced into hard labor, and marginalized by his deafness even as the entire institution, the State…
Author: Susan Burch, Hannah Joyner · Original publisher: University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), published November 19, 2007 (ISBN 978-0-8078-3155-7)
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