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African American Studies
American Studies
Atlanta history
Author_Sarah Haley
black feminism
black studies
black women's history
black women’s history
carceral domesticity
carceral sabotage
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chain gang in Georgia
convict labor in the South
convict leasing in Georgia
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feminist theory
gender violence
gendered racial terror
history of racial terror
History of women's imprisonment
History of women’s imprisonment
intersectionality
Jim Crow modernity
Milldegeville State Farm
Post 1865-African American History
prison studies
southern carceral state
southern history
southern women's history
southern women’s history
state violence against black women
U.S. History
U.S. Women'sGender History
U.S. Women’s/Gender History
women in Georgia
women's blues
women's labor history
women’s blues
women’s labor history
Product details
- ISBN 9781469652221
- Weight: 519g
- Dimensions: 236 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2019
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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, Sarah Haley uncovers imprisoned women's brutalization in local, county, and state convict labor systems, while also illuminating the prisoners' acts of resistance and sabotage, challenging ideologies of racial capitalism and patriarchy and offering alternative conceptions of social and political life.
A landmark history of black women's imprisonment in the South, this book recovers stories of the captivity and punishment of black women to demonstrate how the system of incarceration was crucial to organizing the logics of gender and race, and constructing Jim Crow modernity.
A landmark history of black women's imprisonment in the South, this book recovers stories of the captivity and punishment of black women to demonstrate how the system of incarceration was crucial to organizing the logics of gender and race, and constructing Jim Crow modernity.
Sarah Haley is assistant professor of gender studies and African American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
