Reviews

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

space_hag's review against another edition

informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

ahm522's review

emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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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

bacchicecstasy's review

4.0

 Only downside is the non linear timeline makes it hard to follow at times. On the other hand, I understand the set up helps to 'humanize' the information she delivers/history of the asylum 

privatecaboose's review

dark informative sad slow-paced

4.25

space_cat's review

dark emotional informative mysterious sad medium-paced

4.0

mystery_inc's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Very well-researched, thorough, devastating

mayacydney's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad slow-paced

3.75

jayco's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.5

cadigits's review

Started listening to audiobook