Colored amazons : crime, violence, and Black women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910 / Kali N. Gross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gross, Kali N., 1972-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Politics, history, and culture.

Politics, history, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American criminals--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.

African American criminals.

Female offenders--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.

Female offenders.

Crime and race--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.

Crime and race.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration.

African American women--Public opinion--History.

African American women.

African American women--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Notes from the author : crime and Black women's history

Of law and virtue : Black women in slavery, freedom, and early criminal justice

Service savors of slavery : labor, autonomy, and turn-of-the-century urban crime

Tricking the tricks : violence and vice among Black female criminals

Roughneck women, pale representations, and dark crimes : Black female criminals and popular culture

Deviant by design : race, degeneracy, and the science of penology

Conclusion: "She was born in this prison" : Black female crime, past and present.

Notes:

"A John Hope Franklin Center book"--P. [i].

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-249) and index.

ISBN:

9786613022271

9781283022279

1283022273

9780822387701

0822387700

OCLC:

654740775