Free Joan Little : the politics of race, sexual violence, and imprisonment / Christina Greene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greene, Christina, 1951- author.

Contributor:

Project Muse

Series:

Justice, power, and politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Little, Joan--Trials, litigation, etc.

Little, Joan.

Trials (Murder)--North Carolina.

Trials (Murder).

Justifiable homicide--North Carolina.

Justifiable homicide.

Sexual abuse victims--North Carolina.

Sexual abuse victims.

African American women--Legal status, laws, etc.

African American women.

Prisoners--Civil rights--North Carolina.

Prisoners.

Anti-rape movement--United States.

Anti-rape movement.

African American feminists--History.

African American feminists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022]

Contents:

Intro

Cover Page

Half Title Page

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction: They Had No Plans to Capture Her, but to Kill Her

PART I. Jim Crow Justice and the Civil Rights Trial of the 1970s

1. She Won't No Joan of Arc: Hardscrabble Life in Eastern North Carolina

2. We Had an Instinctive Love for the Negro Race: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Politics of Crime

3. Power to the Ice Pick: Building a Defense, Mounting a Campaign

4. Joanne Is You . . . Joanne Is Me! Everywoman and the Construction of Black Womanhood

5. Joanne Little Acted for Us All: Black Power, Gender, and the Defense of "Sister Joan"

6. Joan Little Is Like Rosa Parks!: The Trial Testimony of Joan Little

PART II. This Army of the Wronged: Forgotten Women and Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights-Black Power Era

7. Child, Why Are They Bringing You to Trial?: The Prison Movement and the Joan Little Case

8. The Police Would Follow Our Van as We Picked Up Kids: Black Power, State Repression, and Carceral Politics

9. Slaves of the State: The Sisters Behind the Brothers and the North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union

10. There Must Not Be Another Attica: Action for Forgotten Women and the Prisoner Strike at the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women

11. We Will Savor the Sweetness of Freedom: Prisoner Intellectuals and the Power of the Word

12. So Now I Take My Stand: The Prison Writings of Joan Little

PART III. Who Will Revere the Black Woman? . . . To Whom Will She Cry Rape?: Carceral Politics and Organizing Against Sexual Violence

13. Bringing This to the Attention of the Nation and the Movement: Third World Women, Sexual Assault, and Lethal Self-Defense

14. The Kind of History That Really Does Get Lost: Black Feminism, Multi-issue Organizing, and the Whitewashing of Women's Liberation

15. That Space for Black Feminism to Grow and Flourish: The Washington, D.C., Rape Crisis Center

16. A Way to Free Themselves: Black Feminists and the National Black Women's Health Project

17. What Chou Mean We, White Girl? White Women, Antiracism, and Sexual Violence

18. The State Is in No Way Our Ally: Race, Sexual Violence, and the Dangers of Carceral Solutions

Epilogue: The 1994 Crime Bill and the Violence Against Women Act: Searching for Safety in the Carceral State 231

Postscript

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 20, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Greene, Christina Free Joan Little

ISBN:

9781469671338

1469671336

Publisher Number:

40031408992

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.