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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.35 AVERAGE

lauren_audhd's review

3.5

informative reflective sad medium-paced

blanketsburg's review

4.0

dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced

ash_shaffer's review

3.0

informative medium-paced

skmccann's review

5.0

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

berkavventure's review

3.5

challenging dark sad medium-paced

aks0813's review

4.5

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

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A very important history of race, racism, and racial discrimination in the US, and its ties to asylums for controlling 'unfit' people - Crownsville in particular - and now prison systems. To sum it up: heavy. 

phyra's review against another edition

4.5

emotional informative sad medium-paced

medweitz's review

2.75

challenging dark informative slow-paced

unapologeticallyjen's review

4.25

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

mmboo's review

3.0

slow-paced