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4.35 AVERAGE
4.35 AVERAGE
challenging
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informative
sad
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
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challenging
sad
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challenging
dark
emotional
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reflective
medium-paced
This is an extremely important story; sadly, I could not get myself into the writing style. I was hoping for a more linear historical account, but it is hard to keep track of what period I was in while listening to the audiobook. This will need to be one I have to revisit with a physical copy.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Mental illness, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality
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Should be required reading.
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I grew up right down the road from Crownsville Hospital, we always referred to it as an insane asylum. I never, not once in my whole life, heard about it as a segregated hospital. This book blew my mind.
I know institutional racism was (and still is) rampant in America. Ms Hylton does a great job examining the records, interviewing employees, patients, and their families, to tell the century long story of Crownsville Hospital.
This book is a hard, frustrating read, due to the subject matter. From having the all black patients build their own hospital, to being a source of free labor contracted out to nearby farmers, Jim Crow America was alive and well in Maryland. The shift from care to using asylums to lock people away is crazy, but here we are. The state's treatment of the patients and staff are both substandard compared to the white hospitals.
The audiobook was expertly read by the author.
I know institutional racism was (and still is) rampant in America. Ms Hylton does a great job examining the records, interviewing employees, patients, and their families, to tell the century long story of Crownsville Hospital.
This book is a hard, frustrating read, due to the subject matter. From having the all black patients build their own hospital, to being a source of free labor contracted out to nearby farmers, Jim Crow America was alive and well in Maryland. The shift from care to using asylums to lock people away is crazy, but here we are. The state's treatment of the patients and staff are both substandard compared to the white hospitals.
The audiobook was expertly read by the author.