Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum Material:Paperback When Paama leaves him for

When Paama leaves him for good

cultural critic and historian Tavia Nyong’o surveys the conditions of contemporary black artistic production in the era of post-blackness

such a luminous dignity

Constructed through hip hop and the performance of Blackness

you’ve heard this a lot lately

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum Material:Paperback When Paama leaves him forIn the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page turning 93 year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nations last segregated asylums, that New York Times bestselling author Clint Smith describes as a book that left me breathless.On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay