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Chargement... Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum (original 2024; édition 2024)par Antonia Hylton (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreMadness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum par Antonia Hylton (2024)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum grabbed me from the synopsis to the last page of the book. It tells the heartbreaking story of Black men, women and children who were exploited and intentionally abused, all for the sake of gaining free labor, starting with the 12 Black men who cleared the land and built it under the supervision of a doctor. Once done, they became the first “patients” at the very institution they helped to create. The patient population grew by leaps and bounds, and there was shockingly little to no care given to them; the majority barely had a bed to sleep in, food to eat, clothes to wear. I was beyond saddened and angry to see that they basically devised a way to “rent” out the “patients” to other businesses, giving them absolutely none of the so-called help they claimed they needed. There were parts of this book that tore at my emotions, had me crying for those who suffered unbearably. This is the must-read book of the year; it’s written with such flowing description it almost makes you feel as if you’re right there. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick walls of a Jim Crow asylum. In Madness, Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist Antonia Hylton tells the 93-year-old 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. She blends the intimate tales of patients and employees whose lives were shaped by Crownsville with a decade-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. As 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. During its peak years, the hospital's wards were overflowing with almost 2,700 patients. By the end of the 20th-century, the asylum faded from view as prisons and jails became America's new focus. In Madness, 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"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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