RT Book
T1 No mercy here: gender, punishment, and the making of Jim Crow modernity
T2 Justice, power, and politics
A1 Haley, Sarah
LA English
PP Chapel Hill
PB The University of North Carolina Press
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1619003201
AB "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"--
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV9471
SN 9781469652221
SN 9781469627595
K1 Women Prisoners : Social conditions : United States
K1 African American prisoners : Social conditions : United States
K1 Women Prisoners : History : United States
K1 African American prisoners : History : United States
K1 Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration : United States
K1 Women Prisoners : Abuse of : United States
K1 African American Women : Abuse of : United States
K1 Race discrimination : United States
K1 Sex discrimination against women : United States
K1 Prison sentences : History : United States
K1 Women Prisoners : United States : Social conditions
K1 African American prisoners : United States : Social conditions
K1 Women Prisoners : United States : History
K1 African American prisoners : United States : History
K1 Prison sentences : United States : History
K1 USA : Schwarze : Weibliche Gefangene : Misshandlung : Diskriminierung : Sexueller Missbrauch : Ausbeutung : Geschichte 1860-1920