Take a photo of a barcode or cover
sgrizzle 's review for:
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
by Antonia Hylton
dark
informative
medium-paced
“The rest of us, have to decide if we are open to listening, or if we are going to continue burying our heads deeper and deeper into the sand. The crisis of mental illness, housing, insecurity, and income inequality bear down on all of us.”
There is so much harm that we’ve never reckoned with. This book, which dives deep into one mental health facility for Black patients in Annapolis, Maryland, is meticulously researched and presented clearly. Some of the stories are so horrific I had to pause. There were a lot of names which was sometimes confusing, but it is both an indictment of the way we treat mental health generally in this country as well as a key work of historical scholarship.
There is so much harm that we’ve never reckoned with. This book, which dives deep into one mental health facility for Black patients in Annapolis, Maryland, is meticulously researched and presented clearly. Some of the stories are so horrific I had to pause. There were a lot of names which was sometimes confusing, but it is both an indictment of the way we treat mental health generally in this country as well as a key work of historical scholarship.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness, Racism, Medical content, Medical trauma
Moderate: Police brutality