893 reviews for:

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.35 AVERAGE

taylornelms's review

4.75

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Abortion, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Colonisation, War, Classism

confidently_uncertain's review

4.0

emotional informative sad medium-paced

k_thompson's review

2.25

medium-paced

kathrat's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

ihummarina's review against another edition

4.5

informative medium-paced

cyntheeez's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

jebfox's review

5.0

emotional informative sad

introvert50's review

4.25

emotional informative sad medium-paced

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Centers around mental health and history of the hospital built by its own patients.

purduekate's review against another edition

5.0

emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

oviedorose's review

4.0

emotional informative reflective sad