Reviews tagging 'Slavery'

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

2 reviews

amachonis's review

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

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. 

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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