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

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

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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.

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Main Author: Gross, Kali N., 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
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.
African American criminals.
Crime and race.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Female offenders.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
History.

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