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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton
2 reviews
lisettemarie's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
4.25
Graphic: Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism
Minor: Abortion
lizzie_winn's review against another edition
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.
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
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