Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly ... (Politics, History, and Culture)

by KaliN.Gross (Author), KaliN.Gross (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2006

  $35.92

  Offers an analysis of the crimes, prosecution, and incarceration of black women in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. This book reconstructs black women's crimes and their representations in popular press accounts and within the discourses of urban and penal reform.