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

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

The mental health of black people in America, under the insane societal damnations of systemic injustice, is so under-researched, uncared for, and historically biased. Reading madness was insightful in a multitude of ways, with particular regard for the shift from institutionalization to incarceration as a means of controlling unbridled black disregard for these same unfair systems.