A bound woman is a dangerous thing : the incarceration of African American women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland
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Published
New York : Bloomsbury (Firm), 2019.
Format
Book
ISBN
9781635572612, 1635572614
Status
Springfield Main Library - Adult
305.4889607 HILL
2 available
305.4889607 HILL
2 available
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Springfield Main Library - Adult | 305.4889607 HILL | Available |
Springfield Main Library - Adult | 305.4889607 HILL | Available |
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Agawam Public Library - Nonfiction | 305.48 HIL | Available |
Amherst Jones Library - Lower Level | 305.48896 Hill | Available |
Gardner Levi Heywood Memorial Library - Nonfiction | 305.4889/HILL | Available |
Great Barrington Mason Library - Adult Nonfiction | 305.48 HILL, DAMARIS | Available |
Hampden Free Public Library - Adult Nonfiction | 305.48 HILL | Available |
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Published
New York : Bloomsbury (Firm), 2019.
Physical Desc
xviii, 163 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9781635572612, 1635572614
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
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 incarcerated women increased by 700%.* For those women who lived and died resisting the dehumanization of confinement--physical, social, intellectual--the threat of being bound was real, constant, and lethal. From Harriet Tubman to Assata Shakur, Ida B. Wells to Sandra Bland and Black Lives Matter, black women freedom fighters have braved violence, scorn, despair, and isolation in order to lodge their protests. In A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing, DaMaris Hill honors their experiences with at times harrowing, at times hopeful responses to her heroes, illustrated with black-and-white photographs throughout.
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