Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910
(Part of the a John Hope Franklin Center Book Series and Politics, History, and Culture Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822337991
ISBN13:9780822337997
Release Date:June 2006
Publisher:Duke University Press
Length:280 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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