Kali Gross, Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910
This study by Kali Gross, Assistant Professor of History at Drexel University and Director of that institution’s Africana Studies Program, explores the history of Black women and crime in post-Reconstruction Philadelphia, using that history as a window into the social and cultural politics of race....
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Sprache: | Anglais |
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2009
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| Online Zugang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Zusammenfassung: | This study by Kali Gross, Assistant Professor of History at Drexel University and Director of that institution’s Africana Studies Program, explores the history of Black women and crime in post-Reconstruction Philadelphia, using that history as a window into the social and cultural politics of race. As Gross states in her introduction, she sees this work as part of a larger project that places Black women, and the experience of poor and working class African Americans more generally, at the c... |
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