Black Girlhood, Punishment, and Resistance: Reimagining Justice for Black Girls in Virginia

by Nishaun T Battle

Black Girlhood, Punishment, and Resistance: Reimagining Justice for Black Girls in Virginia provides a historical comprehensive examination of racialized, classed, and gendered punishment of Black girls in Virginia during the early twentieth century. It looks at the ways in which the court system punished Black girls based upon societal accepted norms of punishment, hinged on a notion that they were to be viewed and treated as adults within the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138288942
• ISBN13: 9781138288942
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"