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

5.0

Haley has written a fantastic and important account of the history of black women's convict labor in Georgia and its relationship to the making of Jim Crow-era racial capitalism. An incredibly rich archive combined with incisive and rigorous interdisciplinary analysis more than does justice to the lives and struggles of the women whose stories Haley recovers, which making clear the stakes of these women's exploitation and oppression and their freedom dreams, acts of sabotage, and cultural practices, embodied in blues feminism, in the history of US white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy. This is a text that should have a major impact on prison studies, labor history. African American Studies, Women's , Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and American Studies.