Kali N Gross: 1 book
Colored Amazons
Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2006
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 popular press accounts and within the discourses...
