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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton
2 reviews
caseythereader's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, War, and Classism
lizzie_winn's review
dark
fast-paced
5.0
This was ambitious in scope and it did not disappoint! Using oral histories and her own experiences as well as archival sources, Hylton shows how Black Americans with mental health challenges or struggles with poverty or encounters with the police or who were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time where institutionalized and pushed to the margins of society.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Police brutality, Medical trauma, Sexual harassment, and Classism