Colored amazons : crime, violence, and Black women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910 / Kali N. Gross
- Author:
- Gross, Kali N., 1972-
- Published:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 260 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm.
- Series:
- Contents:
- 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.
- Subject(s):
- African American criminals—Pennsylvania—Philadelphia—History
- Female offenders—Pennsylvania—Philadelphia—History
- Crime and race—Pennsylvania—Philadelphia—History
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration—Pennsylvania—Philadelphia—History
- African American women—Public opinion—History
- African American women—Social conditions
- ISBN:
- 0822337614 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822337991 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Note:
- "A John Hope Franklin Center book"--P. [i].
- Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-249) and index.
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