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Author Gross, Kali N., 1972-

Title Colored amazons : crime, violence, and Black women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910 / Kali N. Gross.

Publication Info. Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2006.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  HV6795.P5 G76 2006    Available  ---
Description xii, 260 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm.
Series Politics, history, and culture
Politics, history, and culture.
Note "A John Hope Franklin Center book"--P. [i].
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-249) and index.
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 African American criminals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.
African American criminals.
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
History.
Female offenders -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.
Female offenders.
Crime and race -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.
Crime and race.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
African American women -- Public opinion -- History.
African American women.
Public opinion.
African American women -- Social conditions.
African American women -- Social conditions.
ISBN 0822337614 cloth alkaline paper
0822337991 paperback alkaline paper