Free Joan Little : the politics of race, sexual violence, and imprisonment /
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| Author / Creator: | Greene, Christina, 1951- author. |
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| Imprint: | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2022] |
| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Justice, power, and politics Justice, power, and politics. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12771677 |
Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: They Had No Plans to Capture Her, but to Kill Her
- PART I. Jim Crow Justice and the Civil Rights Trial of the 1970s
- 1. She Won't No Joan of Arc: Hardscrabble Life in Eastern North Carolina
- 2. We Had an Instinctive Love for the Negro Race: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Politics of Crime
- 3. Power to the Ice Pick: Building a Defense, Mounting a Campaign
- 4. Joanne Is You . . . Joanne Is Me! Everywoman and the Construction of Black Womanhood
- 5. Joanne Little Acted for Us All: Black Power, Gender, and the Defense of "Sister Joan"
- 6. Joan Little Is Like Rosa Parks!: The Trial Testimony of Joan Little
- PART II. This Army of the Wronged: Forgotten Women and Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights-Black Power Era
- 7. Child, Why Are They Bringing You to Trial?: The Prison Movement and the Joan Little Case
- 8. The Police Would Follow Our Van as We Picked Up Kids: Black Power, State Repression, and Carceral Politics
- 9. Slaves of the State: The Sisters Behind the Brothers and the North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union
- 10. There Must Not Be Another Attica: Action for Forgotten Women and the Prisoner Strike at the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women
- 11. We Will Savor the Sweetness of Freedom: Prisoner Intellectuals and the Power of the Word
- 12. So Now I Take My Stand: The Prison Writings of Joan Little
- PART III. Who Will Revere the Black Woman? . . . To Whom Will She Cry Rape?: Carceral Politics and Organizing Against Sexual Violence
- 13. Bringing This to the Attention of the Nation and the Movement: Third World Women, Sexual Assault, and Lethal Self-Defense
- 14. The Kind of History That Really Does Get Lost: Black Feminism, Multi-issue Organizing, and the Whitewashing of Women's Liberation
- 15. That Space for Black Feminism to Grow and Flourish: The Washington, D.C., Rape Crisis Center
- 16. A Way to Free Themselves: Black Feminists and the National Black Women's Health Project
- 17. What Chou Mean We, White Girl? White Women, Antiracism, and Sexual Violence
- 18. The State Is in No Way Our Ally: Race, Sexual Violence, and the Dangers of Carceral Solutions
- Epilogue: The 1994 Crime Bill and the Violence Against Women Act: Searching for Safety in the Carceral State 231
- Postscript
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index