Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

by Antonia Hylton

found that Black Americans are 2.4 times more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia than white Americans. Back in 2014, a separate study found clear patterns in which Black Americans were diagnosed at a rate three to four times as high as white people, and Latino Americans were diagnosed at a rate more than three times higher than white Americans.