The United States is in the midst of a monumental mental health crisis, with one in four people predicted to experience mental illness at some point in their lives. Adequate mental health care remains out of reach of so many due to a myriad of factors: unaffordability, stigma, shame, and racism, to name a few, leaving enormous gaps in mental health equity. The roots of these inequities can be traced back decades, to the earliest psychiatric hospitals founded on harmful racist notions of mental illness. In&nbsp;<a href="https://bookshop.org/a/3175/9781538723692" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://bookshop.org/a/3175/9781538723692&source=gmail&ust=1759327451598000&usg=AOvVaw3LAsKkbCBTV6YDUfzXNCfp">Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum</a>, author and award-winning journalist&nbsp;<a href="https://www.antoniahylton.com/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.antoniahylton.com/&source=gmail&ust=1759327451598000&usg=AOvVaw0-O4Sy44F5sSE4b_Ssk1rL">Antonia Hylton</a>&nbsp;explores the story of Crownsville Hospital, a segregated asylum in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, built in 1911 by its first patients: twelve Black men. Over the course of the 20th century, the shifting perspectives of race and mental illness played out in the overcrowded and understaffed Crownsville Hospital, with powerful implications for understanding our current failing to deliver adequate care to all in need. Madness is a powerful and necessary book that sheds much-needed light on the intersections between race, racism, and mental illness. Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link:&nbsp;<a href="https://bit.ly/3WwtIAu">https://bit.ly/3WwtIAu</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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