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Author Haley, Sarah, author

Title No mercy here : gender, punishment, and the making of Jim Crow modernity / Sarah Haley
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 337 pages) : illustrations
Series Justice, power, and politics
Justice, power, and politics.
Contents Introduction -- Carceral Constructions of Black Female Deviance -- Convict Leasing, (Re)Production, and Gendered Racial Terror -- Race and the Sexual Politics of Prison Reform -- Engendering the Chain Gang Economy and the Domestic Carceral Sphere -- Sabotage and Black Radical Feminist Refusal -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed July 8, 2020)
Subject Women prisoners -- United States -- Social conditions
African American prisoners -- United States -- Social conditions
Women prisoners -- United States -- History
African American prisoners -- United States -- History
Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
Women prisoners -- Abuse of -- United States
African American women -- Abuse of -- United States
Race discrimination -- United States.
Sex discrimination against women -- United States
Prison sentences -- United States -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
African American prisoners
African American prisoners -- Social conditions
African American women -- Abuse of
Prison sentences
Race discrimination
Sex discrimination against women
Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration
Women prisoners
Women prisoners -- Abuse of
Women prisoners -- Social conditions
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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