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Madness : Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton (2024, Hardcover)

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Madness : Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton (2024, Hardcover)

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PublisherGrand Central Publishing

ISBN-101538723697

ISBN-139781538723692

eBay Product ID (ePID)20060725543

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Book TitleMadness : Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicDiscrimination & Race Relations, General, Mental Health, Psychiatry / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, African American

Publication Year2024

IllustratorYes

GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, Medical, History

AuthorAntonia Hylton

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight20 oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2023-036585

Reviews"Hylton spent a decade researching the history of Crownsville, a segregated mental hospital that operated in Maryland for 91 years. The result is not just a work of painstaking reporting, but a deeply human, often tragic story of an American failure to care for Black minds and bodies."-- The New York Times, "100 Notable Books of 2024", " Madness is an all-too-true story, tirelessly and comprehensively reported, of the reinstatement of antebellum conditions under the guise of mental-health treatment -- an asylum for so-called "feeble-minded" Blacks that was, in fact, little more than slavery by another name. Antonia Hylton's sensitive, searching account of the people forever changed by this place -- and its very clear, dreadful connection to today's carceral state -- will leave you dumbfounded."-- Robert Kolker, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Hidden Valley Road, "Hylton's in-depth probing investigation of Crownsville's history answers essential questions about what happened to the Black population of mentally ill decades after Emancipation." -- King Davis, PhD, Research Professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Information, "Madness is a haunting history of Crownsville Hospital, a segregated asylum in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Sweeping in its reach, the book--with its use of oral history and a rich archive--offers an astonishing account of the complex relation of race, racism, and mental healthcare in America. But there is something more intimate in these pages: a story about families, about the failures of our country, and about the madness that touches us all. A powerful read!"-- Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Princeton University professor and New York Times bestselling author of Begin Again, " Madness is a remarkable feat of reporting, penetrating centuries-old brick walls to reveal in vivid detail long buried truths about the racism at the heart of our nation's ongoing mental health crisis. Many books are described as urgent. This one actually is."-- Wesley Lowery, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of American Whitelash, " Madness is a necessary and unforgettable book. It is a particular story of a Jim Crow institution that devastated the lives of many suffering Black Americans, but it is also a collective story about how mental health care is a social justice issue, and a personal story about love, loss ,and holding onto loved ones through the ravages of living. With powerful and vulnerable writing, alongside diligent research, Hylton has delivered an important and timely work."-- Imani Perry, National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author of South to America, "Antonia Hylton expertly weaves together a moving personal narrative, in-depth reporting, and illuminating archival research to produce a book that left me breathless. Madness is a haunting and revelatory examination of the way that America's history of racism is deeply entangled in our mental health system. A profoundly important book that helps us make sense of an underexamined aspect of our country's history."-- Clint Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Above Ground and How the Word is Passed, "In a haunting book... Braiding a decade of archival research with oral histories from former patients and caregivers, Hylton anatomizes not only the failures of the asylum, which forced its patients into servitude, but also those of a political leadership and a society that routinely alienated and demonized its most vulnerable. As she assesses the endemic racial violence that led to Crownsville's existence, the legacy of which still shapes America today, she asks, 'How could you not go mad?'" -- The New Yorker, "Best Books of 2024", "A thoroughgoing, often shocking exposé of segregation in the treatment (or nontreatment) of mental illness. [A] strong contribution to the literature of both mental health care and civil rights."-- Kirkus (Starred Review), "Hylton spent a decade researching the history of Crownsville, a segregated mental hospital that operated in Maryland for 91 years. The result is not just a work of painstaking reporting, but a deeply human, often tragic story of an American failure to care for Black minds and bodies."-- The New York Times - Editors' Choice

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal362.210975255

SynopsisA New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2024 - A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 New York Times Bestseller - USA Today Bestseller Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of the Year - Amazon Editor's Pick for Best Books In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks , a page-turning ninety-three-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation's last segregated asylums, that the New York Times described as "fascinating...meticulous research" and bestselling author Clint Smith endorsed it as "a book that left me breathless." On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick walls of a Jim Crow asylum. In Madness , Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton tells 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. She 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. During its peak years, the hospital's wards were overflowing with almost 2,700 patients. By the end of the 20th-century, the asylum faded from view as prisons and jails became America's new focus. In Madness, 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberRC445.M28H95 2024