Colored Amazons - Crime, Violence, Black Women in City of Brotherly Love, 18801910

Informationen zum Autor Kali N. Gross Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung A historical analysis of the crimes of black women in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century! as well as of representations of black women criminals in the popular press and legal system Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Gross, Kali N Gross, Kali N. Gross, Kali N. Gross
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 12.07.2006
• EAN: 9780822337614
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3761-4
• Seiten: 280
• Abmessung: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Serien: Politics, History, and Culture; Politics, History, and Culture
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Geografie; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Ethnologie > Volkskunde; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; Amerikanische Geschichte, Ethnic Studies, USA Nordosten, Mid-Atlantic States, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Ethnic Issues, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)