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 |
|