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ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The Philadelphia Colored Directory
Author: The Philadelphia Colored Directory, 1910
Author: The Philadelphia Colored Directory
Author: The Philadelphia 1908 Colored Directory
Author: The Philadelphia Colored Directory: A Handbook of the Religious, Social, Political, Professional, Business and Other Activities of the Negroes of Phil
Author: AnonymousPublisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781340527785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
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The Philadelphia Colored Directory 1923 Edition
Author: Who's who of the Colored Race
Author: Frank Lincoln MatherPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Philadelphia Colored Business Directory
Author: A Directory of the Colored Members of the Philadelphia Bar
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Category : African American judges
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Colored Amazons
Author: Kali N. GrossPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822387700
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
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 women who committed them. Gross argues that the perpetrators and the state jointly constructed black female crime. For some women, crime functioned as a means to attain personal and social autonomy. For the state, black female crime and its representations effectively galvanized and justified a host of urban reform initiatives that reaffirmed white, middle-class authority. Gross draws on prison records, trial transcripts, news accounts, and rare mug shot photographs. Providing an overview of Philadelphia’s black women criminals, she describes the women’s work, housing, and leisure activities and their social position in relation to the city’s native-born whites, European immigrants, and elite and middle-class African Americans. She relates how news accounts exaggerated black female crime, trading in sensationalistic portraits of threatening “colored Amazons,” and she considers criminologists’ interpretations of the women’s criminal acts, interpretations largely based on notions of hereditary criminality. Ultimately, Gross contends that the history of black female criminals is in many ways a history of the rift between the political rhetoric of democracy and the legal and social realities of those marginalized by its shortcomings.