No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity by Sarah Haley

No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity

Sarah Haley

360 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 dome...

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