Antonia Hylton
Autore di Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
Opere di Antonia Hylton
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1993
- Sesso
- female
- Istruzione
- Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School
Harvard University (BA|History & science) - Attività lavorative
- journalist
- Organizzazioni
- VICE Media
NBC News - Agente
- Johanna V. Castillo
Utenti
Recensioni
Statistiche
- Opere
- 1
- Utenti
- 89
- Popolarità
- #207,492
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 1
Journalist Antonia Hylton weaves together first-hand accounts and oral history (including her family's and her own) and what documentary evidence is available to tell the story of Crownsville Hospital - originally Maryland's Hospital for the Negro Insane - in Anne Arundel County from its opening in 1911 through its integration in the decades after World War II until its eventual closure for lack of funding in 2004, and what has happened since with the grounds and some of the final patients. I have a special personal interest in the history of American mental institutions due to my grandmother, who was institutionalized in the early 1950s in deplorable conditions. My grandmother was a White woman living in Indiana. Until I read Hilton's book, I could only imagine how much worse it could have been if she were Black and living south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Hilton's case study of American mental health treatment touches on the insanity of daily life first under slavery and then Jim Crow, and the impacts of institutional racism and lack of adequate mental health care on America's modern economic disparities, gun violence and incarceration rates. As a laser-focused stand-alone, it is compelling, but it leaves the reader wishing it could be the companion piece to a documentary film, or better yet, the launching point for a more comprehensive history.… (altro)