No Mercy Here - Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity

Klappentext In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation. Sarah Haley uncovers imprisoned women's brutalization in local! county! and state convict labour systems! while also illuminating the prisoners' acts of resistance and sabotage! challenging ideologies of racial capitalism and patriarchy and offering alternative conceptions of social and political life.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sarah Haley
• Editore: University Of North Carolina
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9781469627595
• ISBN: 978-1-4696-2759-5
• Pagine: 320
• Serie: Justice, Power, and Politics; Justice, Power, and Politics
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto penale, diritto processuale penale, criminologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni