Bibliograph

A bound woman is a dangerous thing, the incarceration of African American women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland, DaMaris B. Hill

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A bound woman is a dangerous thing, the incarceration of African American women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland, DaMaris B. Hill

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A bound woman is a dangerous thing

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

DaMaris B. Hill

Sub title

the incarceration of African American women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland

Summary

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

Target audience

general

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