No mercy here : gender, punishment, and the making of Jim Crow modernity /

No mercy here : gender, punishment, and the making of Jim Crow modernity /

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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. Exposed to violence and rape, subjugated on chain gangs and as convict laborers, and forced to serve additional time as d...

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Main Author: Haley, Sarah (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
Series:Justice, power, and politics.
Core collection.
Criminal justice & criminology.
Women and the law.
Civil rights and social justice.
Subjects:
Women prisoners > United States > Social conditions.
African American prisoners > Social conditions.
Women prisoners > United States > History.
African American prisoners > History.
Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States.
Women prisoners > Abuse of > United States.
African American women > Abuse of.
Race discrimination > United States.
Sex discrimination against women > United States.
Prison sentences > United States > History.
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