Colored Amazons : Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910 /

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gross, Kali N., 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Diskriminierung
Kriminalität
Schwarze Frau
Öffentliche Meinung
Female offenders.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Crime and race.
African American women > Social conditions.
African American criminals.
Discrimination in justice administration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice penale > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire.
Noires americaines > Conditions sociales.
Noires americaines > Opinion publique > Histoire.
Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire.
Criminalite et race > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire.
Criminelles > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire.
Criminels noirs americains > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire.
Discrimination in justice administration > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
African American women > Public opinion > History.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Crime and race > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Female offenders > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
African American criminals > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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