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Hill makes interventions at the intersections of African American literary criticism

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Black Religion in the Madhouse G. Pirooz Sholevar and connect family history toHow white psychiatrists pathologized African American religions In the decades after the end of slavery, African Americans were committed to southern state mental hospitals at higher rates as white psychiatrists listed "religious excitement" among the most frequent causes of insanity for Black patients. At the same time, American popular culture and political discourse framed African American modes of spiritual power as fetishism and superstition,