Drawing upon black feminist criticism and a diverse array of archivalmaterials, Sarah Haley’s No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment,
and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity illuminates black
women’s experiences of imprisonment in the South to uncover how
gendered regimes of incarceration were crucial to the making of Jim Crow
modernity. No Mercy Here examines the brutalization of imprisoned
women in local, county, and state convict labor systems, while also
situating them within the black radical tradition by illuminating
practices of resistance, refusal, and sabotage that challenged ideologies
of racial capitalism and patriarchy, offering alternative conceptions of
social and political life and envisioning a world beyond prisons.
Royce Hall 314
A Book Talk w/Sarah Haley
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