Gross / Adams / Steinmetz Colored Amazons

Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8770-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 274 Seiten

Reihe: a John Hope Franklin Center Book

This study of black women criminals suggests that we might understand more clearly the constructions of virtue, deviance, race, and gender by reading the crimes of women in the context of their lives and their historical moment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gross, Kali N.

Adams, Julia

Steinmetz, George

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Notes from the Author: Crime and Black Women’s History 1

1. Of Law and Virtue: Black Women in Slavery, Freedom, and Early Criminal Justice 13

2. Service Savors of Slavery: Labor, Autonomy, and Turn-of-the-Century Urban Crime 39

3. Tricking the Tricks: Violence and Vice among Black Female Criminals 72

4. Roughneck Women, Pale Representations, and Dark Crimes: Black Female Criminals and Popular Culture 101

5. Deviant by Design: Race, Degeneracy, and the Science of Penology 127

Conclusion: “She was Born in this Prison”: Black Female Crime, Past and Present 150

Appendix 157

Abbreviations and Notes on Sources 167

Notes 171

Bibliography 231

Index 251

Über Autor(innen)

Kali N. Gross is Assistant Professor of History and Director of Africana Studies at Drexel University.