Colored amazons : crime, violence, and Black women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910 /

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

"Colored Amazons is a groundbreaking historical analysis of the crimes, prosecution, and incarceration of black women in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. Kali N. Gross reconstructs black women's crimes and their representations in popular press accounts and within the dis...

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Main Author: Gross, Kali N., 1972-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2006.
Series:Politics, history, and culture.
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.

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Call Number: HV6795.P5 G76 2006
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