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

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

This has definitely changed the way I view the world and is a book I will be thinking about for a long time. It’s incredibly sad and hard to read at times but does end hopeful. I was really struck by the asylum to prison transition - something that I think a lot of us intuitively know but to see the process actually laid out was eye-opening. I did find the structure a bit confusing - it jumped around in time quite a bit and with so many names, I had a hard time keeping track of the through-line. However, that didn’t impact my understanding of what the book was intending to show. 
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