Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education
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Ruth Thompson-Miller

Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, University of Dayton, Ohio, USA

Biography

Ruth Thompson-Miller, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Dayton, discusses how some scars are carried on the inside. Ruth Thompson-Miller is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Dayton. She is an author of Jim Crow’s Legacy: The Lasting Impact of Segregation, which uses the phrase segregation stress syndrome to describe the long-term impact on physical, mental, and emotional health, as well as the unshakable influence of racism across years and generations.

Publications

The Trial of Ruby McCollum the Consequences of Trauma: Segregation Stress Syndrome

In this chapter, I use trial transcripts, books, documentaries, and newspaper articles to examine the case of Ruby McCollum (a wealthy African American woman who spent two years in prison and 20 years in a mental institution for killing her rapist-Doctor Adams). Ruby McCollum is one of an incalculable number of African American women who were syste... Read More»

Ruth Thompson-Miller

Review Article: J Community Med Health Educ 7:538

DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000538

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