No mercy here : gender, punishment, and the making of jim crow modernity
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,...
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| Format: | EBOOK |
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The University of North Carolina Press
2016
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| Series: | Justice, power, and politics |
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