 | Colored Amazons Subjects: African American women; African American women; Discrimination in criminal justice administration; Crime and race; Female offenders; African American criminals; This study of black women criminals suggests that we might understand more clearly the constructions of virtue, deviance, race, and gender by reading the crimes of women in the context of their lives and their historical moment. Kali N. Gross is Assistant Professor of History and Director of Africana Studies at Drexel University. |
