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Colored amazons : crime, violence, and Black women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910
"Colored Amazons is a groundbreaking historical analysis of the crimes, prosecution, and incarceration of black women in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. Kali N. Gross reconstructs black women's crimes and their representations in popular press accounts and within the dis...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham [N.C.] :
Duke University Press,
2006.
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| Series: | Politics, history, and culture
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Electronic access restricted; authentication may be required |
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"Colored Amazons is a groundbreaking historical analysis of the crimes, prosecution, and incarceration of black women in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. Kali N. Gross reconstructs black women's crimes and their representations in popular press accounts and within the discourses of urban and penal reform. Most importantly, she considers what these crimes signified about the experiences, ambitions, and frustrations of the marginalized women who committed them. Gross argues that the perpetrators and the state jointly constructed black female crime. For some women, crime functioned as a means to attain personal and social autonomy. For the state, black female crime and its representations effectively galvanized and justified a host of urban reform initiatives that reaffirmed white, middle-class authority."--BOOK JACKET. |
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"A John Hope Franklin Center book"--P. [i]. |
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xii, 260 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 25 cm. Also issued online. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-249) and index. |
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0822337614 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822337614 (cloth : alk. paper) 0822337991 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780822337997 (pbk. : alk. paper) |