Ebook: No mercy here : gender, punishment, and the making of Jim Crow modernity
Author: Haley Sarah
- Tags: Women prisoners -- United States -- Social conditions, African American prisoners -- United States -- Social conditions, Women prisoners -- United States -- History, African American prisoners -- United States -- History, Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States, Women prisoners -- Abuse of -- United States, African American women -- Abuse of -- United States, Race discrimination -- United States, Sex discrimination against women -- United States, Prison sentences -- United
- Series: Justice power and politics.
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- City: United States.
- Language: English
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"In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation. Exposed to violence and rape, subjugated on chain gangs and as convict laborers, and forced to serve additional time as domestic workers before they were allowed their freedom, black women faced a pitiless system of violence, terror, and Read more...