Kali N Gross

Colored Amazons

Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910

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Produktbeschreibung

This study of black women criminals suggests that we might understand more clearly the constructions of virtue, deviance, race, and gender by reading the crimes of women in the context of their lives and their historical moment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 162mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780822337614
• ISBN-10: 0822337614
• Artikelnr.: 21174105

Autorenporträt

Kali N. Gross is Assistant Professor of History and Director of Africana Studies at Drexel University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Notes from the Author: Crime and Black Women’s History 1
1. Of Law and Virtue: Black Women in Slavery, Freedom, and Early Criminal
Justice 13
2. Service Savors of Slavery: Labor, Autonomy, and Turn-of-the-Century
Urban Crime 39
3. Tricking the Tricks: Violence and Vice among Black Female Criminals 72
4. Roughneck Women, Pale Representations, and Dark Crimes: Black Female
Criminals and Popular Culture 101
5. Deviant by Design: Race, Degeneracy, and the Science of Penology 127
Conclusion: “She was Born in this Prison”: Black Female Crime, Past and
Present 150
Appendix 157
Abbreviations and Notes on Sources 167
Notes 171
Bibliography 231
Index 251