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

challenging funny informative reflective sad

5.0

This is HOW THE WORD IS PASSED by way of THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS. Like Clint Smith, Hylton traces the history of a physical monument to America's legacy of slavery, this one a psychiatric hospital in Maryland, and traces the line from hospitalizations of Black men in psychiatric institutions to incarceration in criminal institutions of today. There are plenty of villains, but also heroes in this history.