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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Durham [N.C.] :
Duke University Press,
2006.
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245 | 1 | 0 | |a Colored amazons : |b crime, violence, and Black women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910 |c Kali N. Gross |
260 | |a Durham [N.C.] : |b Duke University Press, |c 2006. | ||
300 | |a xii, 260 p. : |b ill., map, ports. ; |c 25 cm. | ||
490 | 1 | |a Politics, history, and culture | |
500 | |a "A John Hope Franklin Center book"--P. [i]. | ||
504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-249) and index. | ||
505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
530 | |a Also issued online. | ||
520 | 1 | |a "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. | |
520 | 8 | |a 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. | |
541 | 0 | |c Purchase; |d May 24, 2012; |h $5.50. | |
590 | |a The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection. | ||
650 | 0 | |a African American criminals |z Pennsylvania |z Philadelphia |x History. | |
650 | 0 | |a Female offenders |z Pennsylvania |z Philadelphia |x History. | |
650 | 0 | |a Crime and race |z Pennsylvania |z Philadelphia |x History. | |
650 | 0 | |a Discrimination in criminal justice administration |z Pennsylvania |z Philadelphia |x History. | |
650 | 0 | |a African American women |x Public opinion |x History. | |
650 | 0 | |a African American women |x Social conditions. | |
776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |a Gross, Kali N., 1972- |t Colored amazons. |d Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2006 |w (OCoLC)654740775 |
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