Colored Amazons
by Gross, Kali N.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-07-30
Publisher(s): Duke Univ Pr
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Summary
"Heartfelt and bold, "Colored Amazons" stands confidently at the intersection of several kinds of history. Kali N. Gross has used statistics, scandal rags, and sophisticated modern studies to produce a genuinely innovative study of race and power, crime and sex, stereotypes and gender roles."--Roger Lane, author of "Roots of Violence in Black Philadelphia, 1860-1900"
Author Biography
Kali N. Gross is Assistant Professor of History and Director of Africana Studies at Drexel University
Table of Contents
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | ix | ||
| INTRODUCTION Notes from the Author: Crime and Black Women's History | 1 | (12) | |
| 1. Of Law and Virtue: Black Women in Slavery, Freedom, and Early Criminal Justice | 13 | (26) | |
| 2. Service Savors of Slavery: Labor, Autonomy, and Turn-of-the-Century Urban Crime | 39 | (33) | |
| 3. Tricking the Tricks: Violence and Vice among Black Female Criminals | 72 | (29) | |
| 4. Roughneck Women, Pale Representations, and Dark Crimes: Black Female Criminals and Popular Culture | 101 | (26) | |
| 5. Deviant by Design: Race, Degeneracy, and the Science of Penology | 127 | (23) | |
| CONCLUSION "She was Born in this Prison": Black Female Crime, Past and Present | 150 | (7) | |
| APPENDIX | 157 | (10) | |
| ABBREVIATIONS AND NOTES ON SOURCES | 167 | (4) | |
| NOTES | 171 | (60) | |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 231 | (20) | |
| INDEX | 251 |
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