{"product_id":"madness-race-and-insanity-in-a-jim-crow-asylum","title":"Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum","description":"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.\n\n\"A book that left me breathless.\" —Clint Smith, New York Times bestselling author of How The Word Is Passed\n\n\"Fascinating.\" —The New York Times\n\nFor 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.\n\nAntonia Hylton blends the intimate tales of patients and employees whose lives were shaped by Crownsville with a decade's 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.\n\nAs 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.\n\nUSA Today Bestseller\n\nNational Indie Bestseller\n\nKirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of the Year\n\nELLE Magazine's Best (and Most Anticipated) Nonfiction Books of 2024\n\nEntertainment Weekly’s Best Books to Read 2024\n\nAn Amazon “Best Book of the Year”\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1538723700\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1538723700.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Hylton, Antonia\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41517284360250,"sku":"DBV.1538723700.G","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1538723700-0.jpg?v=1783831384","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/madness-race-and-insanity-in-a-jim-crow-asylum","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}