The legacy of French colonial psychiatry
French psychiatry in West Africa saw Black bodies as “alien” to white ones. It hasn’t changed much.
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Katie Kilroy-Marac is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.
French psychiatry in West Africa saw Black bodies as “alien” to white ones. It hasn’t changed much.
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