No Mercy Here : Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity /

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"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 d...

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Main Author: Haley, Sarah (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women prisoners > Social conditions.
Women prisoners > Abuse of.
Women prisoners.
Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Sex discrimination against women.
Race discrimination.
Prison sentences.
African American women > Abuse of.
African American prisoners > Social conditions.
African American prisoners.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Peines d'emprisonnement > États-Unis > Histoire.
Discrimination à l'egard des femmes > États-Unis.
Noires americaines > Violence envers > États-Unis.
Prisonnieres > Violence envers > États-Unis.
Discrimination sexuelle dans l'administration de la justice penale > États-Unis.
Prisonniers noirs americains > États-Unis > Histoire.
Prisonnieres > États-Unis > Histoire.
Prisonniers noirs americains > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Prisonnieres > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Prison sentences > United States > History.
Sex discrimination against women > United States.
Race discrimination > United States.
African American women > Abuse of > United States.
Women prisoners > Abuse of > United States.
Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States.
African American prisoners > United States > History.
Women prisoners > United States > History.
African American prisoners > United States > Social conditions.
Women prisoners > United States > Social conditions.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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