Yanos Exiles in New York City

Warehousing the Marginalized on Ward's Island
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-231-55934-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch

Exiles in New York City shares untold stories from Ward’s Island, offering a new lens on the city’s past and present from the perspective of the marginalized.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yanos, Philip T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
1. A Strange Juxtaposition
2. Ward’s Island: A Place Where No One Would Complain
3. Parkland or Institutional Dumping Ground?
4. The French Connection Connection
5. “In Accordance with the Standards”
6. Where Will These Children Play?
7. “We Are New York’s Forgotten People”: The Island Now
8. The Future: What Can Ward’s Island Become?
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Philip T. Yanos is professor of psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Written Off: Mental Health Stigma and the Loss of Human Potential (2018). During his childhood in the 1970s, Yanos lived on the grounds of Manhattan State Hospital on Ward’s Island, where his father was a psychiatrist.