Free Joan Little : the politics of race, sexual violence, and imprisonment /
"Early on a summer morning in 1974, local officials found the jailer Clarence Alligood stabbed to death in a cell in the women's section of a rural North Carolina jail. Fleeing the scene was Joan Little, twenty years old, poor, Black, and in trouble. Little claimed that she had killed Alli...
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. They Had No Plans to Capture Her, but to Kill Her
- Jim Crow Justice and the Civil Rights Trial of the 1970s. She Won't No Joan of Arc: Hardscrabble Life in Eastern North Carolina ; We Had an Instinctive Love for the Negro Race: Liberals, Conservatives, and the Politics of Crime ; Power to the Ice Pick: Building a Defense, Mounting a Campaign ; Joanne Is You... Joanne Is Me! Everywoman and the Construction of Black Womanhood ; Joanne Little Acted for Us All: Black Power, Gender, and the Defense of "Sister Joan" ; Joan Little Is Like Rosa Parks! The Trial Testimony of Joan Little
- This Army of the Wronged: Forgotten Women and Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights-Black Power Era. Child, Why Are They Bringing You to Trial? The Prison Movement and the Joan Little Case ; The Police Would Follow Our Van as We Picked Up Kids: Black Power, State Repression, and Carceral Politics ; Slaves of the State: The Sisters Behind the Brothers and the North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union ; There Must Not Be Another Attica: Action for Forgotten Women and the Prisoner Strike at the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women ; We Will Savor the Sweetness of Freedom: Prisoner Intellectuals and the Power of the Word ; So Now I Take My Stand: The Prison Writings of Joan Little
- Who Will Revere the Black Woman?... To Whom Will She Cry Rape? Carceral Politics and Organizing Against Sexual Violence. Bringing This to the Attention of the Nation and the Movement: Third World Women, Sexual Assault, and Lethal Self-Defense ; The Kind of History That Really Does Get Lost: Black Feminism, Multi-issue Organizing, and the Whitewashing of Women's Liberation ; That Space for Black Feminism to Grow and Flourish: The Washington, D.C., Rape Crisis Center ; A Way to Free Themselves: Black Feminists and the National Black Women's Health Project ; What Chou Mean We, White Girl? White Women, Antiracism, and Sexual Violence ; 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.