Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910 by Kali Nicole Gross

Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910

Kali Nicole Gross

280 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction gender history race challenging informative medium-paced
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Colored Amazons is a groundbreaking historical analysis of the crimes, prosecution, and incarceration of black women in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. Kali N. Gross reconstructs black women’s crimes and their representations in...

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