A review by jane_seymour7
No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity by Sarah Haley

3.0

This book is DENSE. As much as I enjoyed Haley's writing style, it definitely requires you to use all of your brainpower. Also, I found it to be a bit redundant; as much as I enjoyed it and learned a lot from it, I felt as though Haley was making the same points with different historical examples. While it discusses incredibly important information about gendered racial terror in the Southern carceral system, it is definitely something that I would only pick up for academic purposes.