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Colored amazons : crime, violence, and Black women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910
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- Creator
- Kali N. Gross
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2006
- Physical Details
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- xii, 260 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0822337614, 9780822337614, 0822337991, 9780822337997
- OCLC
- ocm63171033
- "A John Hope Franklin Center book"--P. [i].
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-249) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- 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.