Martin Summers
Biographic Data
| ID | 5532447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Summers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Summers |
| SIGNATURE | SUMMERS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Asylum Ways of Seeing
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America
Psychiatry, Mental Health Care, and the Black Freedom Struggle
Journal Article Psychiatry, Mental Health Care, and the Black Freedom Struggle: Chicago's Woodlawn Mental Health Center Get access Martin Summers Martin Summers Professor of history and African and African diaspora studies at Boston College Readers may contact Summers at [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Issue 2, September 2023, Pages 282–307, h…
The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840-1880
Wendy Gonaver's study of race and mental illness in nineteenth-century Virginia is an important book. Several monographs have examined the history of Eastern Lunatic Asylum (Ela) in Williamsburg, and a number of theses and dissertations have been written about Central Lunatic Asylum (Cla) in Petersburg, but no historian to date has looked at these two institutions together. Established in 1773, Ela admitted black and white Virginians who were con…
The Whiteness of psychology
Melissa N. Stein. Measuring Manhood
It has become axiomatic within cultural studies to refer to race, gender, class, and sexuality as mutually constitutive categories of identity. For at least three decades now, historians of race and gender have been elucidating the ways in which the construction and maintenance of social hierarchies have depended upon a logic that homologizes racial, gender, and sexual difference in the service of producing a normative subject against whom all ot…
Precarious Prescriptions
"Suitable Care of the African When Afflicted With Insanity"
This article examines the historical parallels and convergences between ideas of racial difference in the Anglo-American psychiatric community and concrete practices of inmate management in mental institutions in the postemancipation United States and colonial sub-Saharan Africa. It maps the theories and rhetoric of racial hierarchy that characterized psychiatrists' thought regarding the etiology of mental illness among people of African descent …
Black Masculinity and the U.S. South
Book Review| January 01 2008 Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta, Riché Richardson. Martin Summers Martin Summers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2008) 27 (2): 112–114. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543345 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Cita…
Diasporic Brotherhood
This essay examines the relationship between two black Freemasons in the Gold Coast and New York in the 1930s. Drawing on the correspondence of D. K. Abadu Bentsi and Harry A. Williamson, this essay argues that fraternal voluntary associations operated as sites for the formation of a gendered diasporic identity. In doing so, it suggests that we need to complicate our understanding of diaspora by considering the ways in which the development of di…
Black Masculinity and the U.S. South
Book Review| January 01 2008 Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta, Riché Richardson. Martin Summers Martin Summers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2008) 27 (2): 112–114. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543345 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Cita…
Diasporic Brotherhood
This essay examines the relationship between two black Freemasons in the Gold Coast and New York in the 1930s. Drawing on the correspondence of D. K. Abadu Bentsi and Harry A. Williamson, this essay argues that fraternal voluntary associations operated as sites for the formation of a gendered diasporic identity. In doing so, it suggests that we need to complicate our understanding of diaspora by considering the ways in which the development of di…
Diasporic Brotherhood
This essay examines the relationship between two black Freemasons in the Gold Coast and New York in the 1930s. Drawing on the correspondence of D. K. Abadu Bentsi and Harry A. Williamson, this essay argues that fraternal voluntary associations operated as sites for the formation of a gendered diasporic identity. In doing so, it suggests that we need to complicate our understanding of diaspora by considering the ways in which the development of di…
Black Masculinity and the U.S. South
Book Review| January 01 2008 Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta, Riché Richardson. Martin Summers Martin Summers Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2008) 27 (2): 112–114. https://doi.org/10.2307/40543345 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Cita…
Precarious Prescriptions
"Suitable Care of the African When Afflicted With Insanity"
This article examines the historical parallels and convergences between ideas of racial difference in the Anglo-American psychiatric community and concrete practices of inmate management in mental institutions in the postemancipation United States and colonial sub-Saharan Africa. It maps the theories and rhetoric of racial hierarchy that characterized psychiatrists' thought regarding the etiology of mental illness among people of African descent …
Melissa N. Stein. Measuring Manhood
It has become axiomatic within cultural studies to refer to race, gender, class, and sexuality as mutually constitutive categories of identity. For at least three decades now, historians of race and gender have been elucidating the ways in which the construction and maintenance of social hierarchies have depended upon a logic that homologizes racial, gender, and sexual difference in the service of producing a normative subject against whom all ot…
The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840-1880
Wendy Gonaver's study of race and mental illness in nineteenth-century Virginia is an important book. Several monographs have examined the history of Eastern Lunatic Asylum (Ela) in Williamsburg, and a number of theses and dissertations have been written about Central Lunatic Asylum (Cla) in Petersburg, but no historian to date has looked at these two institutions together. Established in 1773, Ela admitted black and white Virginians who were con…
The Whiteness of psychology
Psychiatry, Mental Health Care, and the Black Freedom Struggle
Journal Article Psychiatry, Mental Health Care, and the Black Freedom Struggle: Chicago's Woodlawn Mental Health Center Get access Martin Summers Martin Summers Professor of history and African and African diaspora studies at Boston College Readers may contact Summers at [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Issue 2, September 2023, Pages 282–307, h…
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America
Asylum Ways of Seeing
Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Diaspora (3 works) · History (3 works) · History of Science and Medicine (3 works)