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

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, this New York Times bestseller is a...
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Author: Antonia Hylton
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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Hylton, Antonia

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

$45.62
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Hylton, Antonia

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

$45.62
Author: Antonia Hylton
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, this New York Times bestseller is a page-turning account of one of the nation's last segregated asylums..."a book that left me breathless" (Clint Smith).

For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers through the ninety-three-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums with surviving records and a campus that still stands to this day in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Antonia Hylton blends the intimate tales of patients and employees whose lives were shaped by Crownsville with a decade-worth of investigative research and archival documents. Madness chronicles the stories of Black families whose mental health suffered as they tried, and sometimes failed, to find safety and dignity. Hylton also grapples with her own family's experiences with mental illness, and the secrecy and shame that it reproduced for generations.

As Crownsville Hospital grew from an antebellum-style work camp to a tiny city sitting on 1,500 acres, the institution became a microcosm of America's evolving battles over slavery, racial integration, and civil rights. Hylton traces the legacy of slavery to the treatment of Black people's bodies and minds in our current mental healthcare system. It is a captivating and heartbreaking meditation on how America decides who is sick or criminal, and who is worthy of our care or irredeemable.

Author: Antonia Hylton
Publisher: Legacy Lit
Published: 01/23/2024
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.31w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781538723692


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2023 pg. 20
Library Journal 12/01/2023 pg. 101
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2023
BookPage 01/01/2024
Choice 01/01/2025

About the Author

Antonia Hylton is a Peabody and Emmy-award winning journalist at NBC News reporting on politics and civil rights, and the co-host of the hit podcast Southlake and Grapevine. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, where she received prizes for her investigative research on race, mass incarceration and the history of psychiatry. She lives in Brooklyn.


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