889 reviews for:

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.35 AVERAGE

rexgertspud's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

struanyoung97's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

justine_m's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional informative reflective sad

queermj's review

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad medium-paced

biblioholicbeth's review

4.5

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

c_martinlovett's review

3.75

emotional informative sad slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Rape

aydencohen's review

4.25

dark emotional medium-paced

onlyonebookshelf's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 0%

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Not a bad book, but I was not in the mental headspace for this one. 

jbr471's review against another edition

4.75

emotional informative sad medium-paced

bookwormoftheskies's review

5.0

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A book that has more wide ranging implications than you’d initially think as it addresses subjects ranging from the life and death of Henrietta lack’s daughter and medical maltreatment and the rise of mass incarceration.