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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

4.0

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

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A mix of memoir and informational non-nonfiction. Blending the author’s experience of having family members who have mental health conditions and chronicling the history of the Crownsville Hospital asylum. Through exposing the history of the asylum and centering the Black patients and staff in the narrative, the author examines how race (racism), mental health, and “crime” intersect.