No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity

by Sarah Haley

Book Overview

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous structures of economic exploitation. Subjugated as convict laborers and forced to serve additional time as domestic workers before they were allowed their freedom, black women faced a pitiless system of violence, terror, and debasement. Drawing upon black feminist criticism and a diverse array of archival materials,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469627590
• ISBN13: 9781469627595
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.6"