Free Joan Little : the politics of race, sexual violence, and imprisonment /
Early on a summer morning in 1974, local officials found the jailer Clarence Alligood stabbed to death in a cell in the women's section of a rural North Carolina jail. Fleeing the scene was Joan Little, twenty years old, poor, Black and in trouble. Little claimed that she had killed Alligood in...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2022].
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| Series: | Justice, power, and politics.
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| Summary: | Early on a summer morning in 1974, local officials found the jailer Clarence Alligood stabbed to death in a cell in the women's section of a rural North Carolina jail. Fleeing the scene was Joan Little, twenty years old, poor, Black and in trouble. Little claimed that she had killed Alligood in self-defense against sexual assault. After a five-week trial, Little was acquitted. But the case stirred debate about a woman's right to use deadly force to resist sexual violence. Through the prism of Little's rape-murder trial and the Free Joan Little campaign, Christina Greene explores the intersecting histories of African American women, mass incarceration, sexual violence and 1970s and 1980s social movements. |
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| Physical Description: | 348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469671307 1469671301 9781469671314 146967131X |