Reviews tagging 'Racism'

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

15 reviews

amachonis's review

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Slavery, Racism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Police brutality, Death, Sexual assault, Murder, and Suicide

carrie_wallace's review

dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Medical trauma, Suicide, Confinement, and Forced institutionalization

lizzie_winn's review

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. 

---

Content Warnings

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual harassment, Child abuse, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Sexism, Sexual assault, Classism, Death, Mental illness, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, Police brutality, Slavery, and Violence

ehmannky's review against another edition

dark informative

3.5

A comprehensive look at the history of Crownsville Hospital and, to a lesser degree, about the ways that the white-dominated fields of law and psychology have led to a direct line between enslavement to mental health institutionalization to mass incarceration that we see today. Hylton does an admirable job at making a comprehensive story around this place given that so many of the records of Crownsville were destroyed by negligence and an active desire to keep some of the Crownsville history secret. There were times that I did not love the way that the book was structured, but the content is important enough that that's easily overlooked. 

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Forced institutionalization

moonytoast's review against another edition

emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

a must read for those interested in psychology, the history of racialized treatment in the pyschology field and its impact on the current relationship of black people to the mental health system, the connection between mental institutions and the carceral system, and the impact of places like crownsville on everyone who moved through that place. EVERY psychology department at PWIs need to have this book on their curriculum for students to read!!!!!

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual assault, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Racism, and Suicide

amyjo25's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide

latisha's review against another edition

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism and Racism

megnut's review

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Forced institutionalization, Racial slurs, Mental illness, Police brutality, Racism, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

caidyn's review

dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Mental illness, and Racism

shannonreads96's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

---

Content Warnings

Graphic: Forced institutionalization, Confinement, Racism, Ableism, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide and Police brutality