No mercy here
gender, punishment, and the making of Jim Crow modernity
Women prisoners
Abuse of
Race discrimination
Sex discrimination against women
African American women
Social conditions
History
"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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