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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
by Antonia Hylton
dark
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
This is a great book and a devastating book. Would recommend for anyone connected to or living in the Annapolis area.
I grew up a few miles from the Crownsville Hospital. I had no idea about the majority of information in this book. Only as an adult have I started to understand the history of this place. I really wish that I'd been taught more about this, or at least about the racial undertones of the rhetoric around Crownsville, before I'd moved away. We spent time on Maryland history and local history, but recent (the hospital was still running in the 1990s) history like this never came up.
Also, I've drive on Aris T. Allen Boulevard more times than I can count, and I had no idea that he was a Black doctor and senator in the area who only died in 1991. Now that's on me, but a reminder to all of us- those named streets mean something!!
I grew up a few miles from the Crownsville Hospital. I had no idea about the majority of information in this book. Only as an adult have I started to understand the history of this place. I really wish that I'd been taught more about this, or at least about the racial undertones of the rhetoric around Crownsville, before I'd moved away. We spent time on Maryland history and local history, but recent (the hospital was still running in the 1990s) history like this never came up.
Also, I've drive on Aris T. Allen Boulevard more times than I can count, and I had no idea that he was a Black doctor and senator in the area who only died in 1991. Now that's on me, but a reminder to all of us- those named streets mean something!!