Uncovering The Madness of Crownsville Hospital w/Antonia Hylton

While Black

REVOLT

Education, Self-improvement

4.1 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this episode of While Black, we sit down with journalist Antonia Hylton to discuss her book, "Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum." Antonia takes us on a journey through the hidden history of Crownsville Hospital, a segregated asylum in Maryland, revealing the untold stories of Black patients and employees. We delve into the complexities of race, mental health, and civil rights in America, exploring how the legacy of slavery continues to shape our current mental healthcare system. Join us for a thought-provoking conversation that sheds light on a forgotten chapter of our past and its enduring impact on our present. Please go engage with Antonia and purchase her book on her website Don't forget to get social with While Black IG: WHILE_BLACK; TWITTER @whileblackpc; FB @whileblackpodcast or email: [email protected] Recorded @ drsatl.com Theme song Produced by Wahid Gomes and licensed through Verde Music Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	What's going on everybody? This is Darius. Look coming to you at the beginning of an
0:34.9	episode. Today we've got first-time author in New York Times bestseller
0:38.8	Anton. She's here because the story she wrote is so amazing, honestly unbelievable,
0:47.0	surprising, but maybe not so much when you consider our history, but she wrote a book
0:52.1	called Madness, Race and Insanity in a
0:54.8	Jim Crow asylum. The story is just completely bonkers. It's about gathering
1:00.5	people that you were going to jail, you are going to put into an asylum, and instead of taking them to a physical building, you take them to earth, a patch of earth, a patch of land, and you tell them to build the asylum that they will then
1:15.5	occupy. And the story only goes on from there. She digs into the hopes and the hurts. She
1:21.1	digs into the dreams and the damned moments. She digs into so many different elements of this story.
1:26.0	It's absolutely amazing. I've had the chance to read it since she and I talked. I was moved.
1:32.0	So what I want you to do is open up your ears, open up your hearts and
1:34.9	listen to this story. It's a powerful one and it's one of those episodes where I get
1:39.0	so into the story so quickly. We don't even do our normal so I don't think we do wild black
1:43.6	shit. We don't really do the dope quote. We forget to name the book. All these
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