A bound woman is a dangerous thing : the incarceration of African American women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland /

For black American women, the experience of being bound has taken many forms, from the bondage of slavery to the Reconstruction-era criminalization of women, from the brutal constraints of Jim Crow to our own era's prison industrial complex, where between 1980 and 2014, the number of incarcerat...

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Main Author:	Hill, DaMaris B. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, [2019]
Subjects:	African American women > Social conditions. African American women > Effect of imprisonment on. Women slaves. United States > Race relations. Racism > United States. HISTORY / United States / General. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.