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Imprisoned black women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries endured severe gendered racial terror and economic exploitation, serving as convict laborers and domestic workers. Sarah Haley utilizes black feminist criticism and archival materials to reveal the brutalization these women faced within various labor systems. The book also highlights their acts of resistance and sabotage, challenging the prevailing ideologies of racial capitalism and patriarchy, while proposing alternative views on social and political life.
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No Mercy Here, Sarah Haley
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- Released
- 2019
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- Title
- No Mercy Here
- Subtitle
- Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Sarah Haley
- Released
- 2019
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 356
- ISBN10
- 1469652226
- ISBN13
- 9781469652221
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, Political Science & Politics, Politics, Feminism, American History, Race, Racism, Gender
- Description
- Imprisoned black women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries endured severe gendered racial terror and economic exploitation, serving as convict laborers and domestic workers. Sarah Haley utilizes black feminist criticism and archival materials to reveal the brutalization these women faced within various labor systems. The book also highlights their acts of resistance and sabotage, challenging the prevailing ideologies of racial capitalism and patriarchy, while proposing alternative views on social and political life.