03989ckm a2200421 i 4500 1130073795 TxAuBib 20240123120000.0 230819s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023036585 9781538723692 1538723697 TxAuBib rda Hylton, Antonia,. Madness : race and insanity in a Jim Crow asylum / Antonia Hylton. Race and insanity in a Jim Crow asylum. First edition. New York : Legacy Lit, 2024. ©2024. xiii, 350 pages : illustrations (black and white) portraits, photographs ; 24 cm. sti rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier txt rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-338) and index. Breaking ground. A negro asylum -- All the superintendent's men -- The sea, the farm, and the forest -- What could drive a Black person mad? -- The architecture of injustice -- Fear and fury. Cousin Maynard -- Black men are escaping -- A burning house -- A bus ride to Rosewood -- The promise of integration. Love and broken promises -- Out of sight, out of mind -- Medical and surgical -- Nurse Faye and Sonia King -- Black power andpathology. Screaming at the sky -- The curious case of the Elkton three -- Sympathy for me but not for thee -- Where have all the patients gone? In the balance -- Irredeemable or incurable -- The fire -- Closing Crownsville -- Epilogue : but for the grace of God. 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. The authors transport readers behind the brick walls of a Jim Crow asylum — 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. They blend the intimate tales of patients and employees whose lives were shaped by Crownsville with a decade-worth of investigative research and archival documents, chronicling 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. 20240123. Crownsville State Hospital History. Psychiatric hospitals Maryland Crownsville History. African Americans Mental health services Maryland Crownsville History. African Americans Maryland Crownsville Biography. Mentally ill Abuse of Maryland Crownsville History. Racism in medicine. Informational works.