No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity
(Part of the Justice, Power, and Politics Series)
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation. Subjugated 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,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1469652226
ISBN13:9781469652221
Release Date:February 2019
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:360 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 9.3" x 9.2"
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