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No mercy here

gender, punishment, and the making of Jim Crow modernity

by Sarah Haley

2016 337 pages eng

"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 domest…

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