870 reviews for:

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.35 AVERAGE

mliegel96's review

4.0

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

daisinthelibrary's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

lynnettew's review

4.0

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

heatherd's review

4.5

informative medium-paced

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This book is excellent. Hylton does an exceptional job mixing personal stories with diligent, detailed research, and presents the reader with such a well-rounded, easy to follow story of the Crownsville Hospital. The book is super accessible and, while the subject matter is really difficult, it is an important story that needed to be told.

bmilleville's review against another edition

3.25

reflective sad slow-paced

kalatalo's review against another edition

3.25

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

mandtastic's review

5.0

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Horribly sad and heartbreaking. This is an important well written story that’s impeccably researched, and uncomfortable to read. Black history is American history. Although this book focuses on the treatment of mental health In black Americans the outcomes of that  treatment affects all of our American culture. 

nenafp's review

4.0

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

harryneverpotter's review

5.0

medium-paced

allybug47's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional sad fast-paced