Sarah Haley (1)

This book was so, so excellent. Haley takes stories of incarcerated Black women during Jim Crow and puts them into contexts of racialized gendered ideology to show how little change had been materially enacted since the fall of slavery, even as the way for modernity was literally being paved by these incarcerated women. Haley does an amazing job of weaving together historical sources with theoretical concepts done by other scholars--like damn if this is possible for a history book why can't historians write more like this!!!!! (I know why, but like ugh.) It's such a good, important book that any white feminist needs to read.… (plus d'informations)