Welcome back! For the fall semester of the 2024 academic year, we will be hosting a book club featuring Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton. In her book, Hylton casts a gritty spotlight on the history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the largest segregated hospitals with records still available today. Through this harrowing story, Hylton exposes the intersection of race, mental health, and systemic oppression in the early 20th century.

This initial discussion will be the first of three meetings for this book.

Chapters due: Introduction and Part One (pages 1-79)