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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

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Availability:In StockContributor:Antonia HyltonPublish date:9/30/2025Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Legacy LitISBN-13:9781538723708ISBN-10:1538723700UPC:9781538723708Book Category:History, Medical, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Mental Health, DiscriminationSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCD3TNFK8S

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Legacy LitISBN-13:9781538723708ISBN-10:1538723700UPC:9781538723708Book Category:History, Medical, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Mental Health, DiscriminationSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCD3TNFK8S

Antonia Hylton is a Peabody and Emmy-award winning journalist at NBC News reporting on politics and civil rights, and the co-host of the hit podcast Southlake and Grapevine. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, where she received prizes for her investigative research on race, mass incarceration and the history of psychiatry. She lives in Brooklyn.


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Antonia Hylton

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