Annotate With Sara

The title appears frequently in this book, and it’s well worth annotating.

Madness is both the title of this book and its final word. Highlighting the words “madness,” “mad,” and “crazy” is a way to capture a pattern of moments where the author Antonia Hylton questions what madness really is and what causes it.

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To annotate the title in Madness, you’ll need 7 tabs. 

One tab will be for your tab key. I recommend choosing a pen or highlighter color that coordinates with your tab color, then highlight the sentences with the title on each of the pages you tab. Page details below

TAB INTRODUCTION, p 1

HIGHLIGHT and/or UNDERLINE:

• “American Madness” (the title of the Introduction)

TAB INTRODUCTION, p 5

HIGHLIGHT and/or UNDERLINE:

• “Madness and Medicine” delivered by Professor Anne Harrington…”
• “Michael Foucault’s Madness and Civilization and Birth of the Clinic…”
• “What has happened to Black people when they, their families, or their communities went mad?”

TAB Ch 7, p 102

HIGHLIGHT and/or UNDERLINE:

• “This disconnect on the true cost and consequences of segregation was enough to drive Black residents mad.”

TAB Ch 4, p 55

HIGHLIGHT and/or UNDERLINE:

• “What Could Drive a Black Person Mad?” (chapter title)

TAB Ch 15, p 217

HIGHLIGHT and/or UNDERLINE:

• “Black reporters saw clearly that the Elkton Three were being labeled as “crazy” not because they displayed symptoms of any genuine illness but simply because they had defied the expectations of police officers and white business owners.”

TAB Ch 4, p 64

HIGHLIGHT and/or UNDERLINE:

• “How could you not go mad?”

TAB Ch 15, p 218

HIGHLIGHT and/or UNDERLINE:

• “Why We Go Crazy” (this is the title of a section in this chapter)

TAB Ch 15, p 223

HIGHLIGHT and/or UNDERLINE:

• “We continue to live with the political and clinical consequences of our conflation of protest and madness.”

TAB Ch 15, p 224

HIGHLIGHT and/or UNDERLINE:

• “Merely sitting down and thinking about these and countless other things just as bad in a nation that is trying to sell the world on the democratic way of life could drive a lot of people crazy, and it probably does.”

TAB Ch 18, p 261

HIGHLIGHT and/or UNDERLINE:

• “I believe that madness is part of all of us, all the time, that it comes and goes, waxes and wanes. —Otto Friedrich” (epigraph for chapter)

TAB EPILOGUE, p 318

HIGHLIGHT and/or UNDERLINE:

• “It is cruel. It’s madness.”