TY  - BOOK
AU  - Haley,Sarah
TI  - No mercy here: gender, punishment, and the making of Jim Crow modernity 
T2  - Justice, power, and politics
SN  - 9781469627618
AV  - HV9471 .N664 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Women prisoners
KW  - United States
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - African American prisoners
KW  - History
KW  - Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration
KW  - Abuse of
KW  - African American women
KW  - Race discrimination
KW  - Sex discrimination against women
KW  - Prison sentences
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - "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 domestic workers before they were allowed their freedom, black women faced a pitiless system of violence, terror, and debasement. Drawing upon black feminist criticism and a diverse array of archival materials, Sarah Haley uncovers imprisoned women's brutalization in local, county, and state convict labor systems, while also illuminating the prisoners' acts of resistance and sabotage, challenging ideologies of racial capitalism and patriarchy and offering alternative conceptions of social and political life"--
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