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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

Gross, Kali N.

Paperback

Series: Politics, History, and Culture

Black American StudiesRegional: Middle AtlanticWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0822337991
ISBN13: 9780822337997
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jun 22 2006
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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 discourses of urban and penal reform. Most importantly, she considers what these crimes signified about the experiences, ambitions, and frustrations of the marginalized women who committed them. Gross argues that the perpetrators and the state jointly constructed black female crime. For some women, crime functioned as a means to attain personal and social autonomy. For the state, black female crime and its representations effectively galvanized and justified a host of urban reform initiatives that reaffirmed white, middle-class authority.

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