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

Informationen zum Autor Kali N. Gross is Assistant Professor of History and Director of Africana Studies at Drexel University. Klappentext "Heartfelt and bold, "Colored Amazons" stands confidently at the intersection of several kinds of history. Kali N. Gross has used statistics, scandal rags, and sophisticated modern studies to produce a genuinely innovative study of race and power, crime and sex, stereotypes and gender roles."--Roger Lane, author of "Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900" Zusammenfassung Offers an analysis of the crimes! prosecution! and incarceration of black women in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. This book reconstructs black women's crimes and their representations in popular press accounts and within the discourses of urban and penal reform. 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

Product details

• Authors: Kali N Gross, Kali N. Gross
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.06.2006
• EAN: 9780822337997
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3799-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Politics, History, and Culture; Politics, History, and Culture
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)