Free Joan Little: the politics of race, sexual violence, and imprisonment
"Early on a summer morning in 1974, local officials found the jailer Clarence Alligood stabbed to death in a cell in the women's section of a rural North Carolina jail. Fleeing the scene was Joan Little, twenty years old, poor, Black, and in trouble. Little claimed that she had killed Alli...
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| Tipo de documento: | Print Libro |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina Press
[2022]
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| En: | Año: 2022 |
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| Sumario: | "Early on a summer morning in 1974, local officials found the jailer Clarence Alligood stabbed to death in a cell in the women's section of a rural North Carolina jail. Fleeing the scene was Joan Little, twenty years old, poor, Black, and in trouble. Little claimed that she had killed Alligood in self-defense against sexual assault. After a five-week trial, Little was acquitted. But the case stirred debate about a woman's right to use deadly force to resist sexual violence. Through the prism of Little's rape-murder trial and the Free Joan Little campaign, Christina Greene explores the intersecting histories of African American women, mass incarceration, sexual violence, and 1970s and 1980s social movements"-- |
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| Notas: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-329) and index |
| Descripción Física: | 348 Seiten, Illustrationen, Karten, 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4696-7130-7 978-1-4696-7131-4 |
