Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910

by Kali N. Gross and Kali Nicole Gross

Book Overview

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 of urban and penal reform. Most importantly, she considers what these crimes signified about the experiences, ambitions, and frustrations of the marginalized...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822337991
• ISBN13: 9780822337997
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"