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