Description |
1 online resource (xv, 337 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Justice, power, and politics |
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Justice, power, and politics.
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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
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African American prisoners -- United States -- Social conditions
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Women prisoners -- United States -- History
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African American prisoners -- United States -- History
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Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States
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Women prisoners -- Abuse of -- United States
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African American women -- Abuse of -- United States
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Race discrimination -- United States.
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Sex discrimination against women -- United States
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Prison sentences -- United States -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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African American prisoners
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African American prisoners -- Social conditions
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African American women -- Abuse of
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Prison sentences
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Race discrimination
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Sex discrimination against women
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Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration
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Women prisoners
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Women prisoners -- Abuse of
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Women prisoners -- Social conditions
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781469627618 |
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1469627612 |
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9781469627601 |
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1469627604 |
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