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No mercy here : gender, punishment, and the making of Jim Crow modernity / Sarah Haley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haley, Sarah, author.
- Series:
- Justice, power, and politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women prisoners--United States--Social conditions.
- Women prisoners.
- African American prisoners--Social conditions--United States.
- African American prisoners.
- African American prisoners--Social conditions.
- Prison sentences.
- History.
- African American women--Abuse of.
- Social conditions.
- United States.
- Women prisoners--United States--History.
- African American prisoners--United States--History.
- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.
- Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration.
- Women prisoners--Abuse of--United States.
- Women prisoners--Abuse of.
- African American women--Abuse of--United States.
- African American women.
- Race discrimination--United States.
- Race discrimination.
- Sex discrimination against women--United States.
- Sex discrimination against women.
- Prison sentences--United States--History.
- Women prisoners--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- "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 debasement. Drawing upon black feminist criticism and a diverse array of archival materials, Sarah Haley uncovers imprisoned women's brutalization in local, county, and state convict labor 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Carceral constructions of black female deviance
- Convict leasing, (re)production, and gendered racial terror
- Race and the sexual politics of prisoin reform
- Engendering the chain gang economy and the domestic carceral sphere
- Sabotage and black radical feminist refusal.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-318) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781469627595
- 1469627590
- OCLC:
- 919041802
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