Join the Booked for Lunch club April 25, from noon - 1 p.m. in UMSON, Room 503, as we discuss Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton. Lunch will be provided by a local minority/women-owned restaurant.
A limited number of books is provided to members in advance. If you receive a free book, you will be expected to attend the discussion meeting. Please email Emily New to inquire about availability.
About the Book:
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.
If you are interested in joining Booked for Lunch, you can sign up here or reach out to Emily New.