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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum.

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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum.

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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum.

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Antonia Hylton’s ‘Madness’ Examines Crownsville Hospital, One of the Nation’s Last Segregated Asylums

At its heart, the book by the NBC and MSNBC correspondent is a look at who America deems sick or criminal, and who is deemed worthy of care.