| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880–1910. By Kali N. Gross. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. xii, 260 pp. Cloth, $74.95, ISBN 0-8223-3761-4. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-8223-3799-1.)

Kali N. Gross's Colored Amazons examines black female crime, violence, and incarceration in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. Using prison records, trial transcripts, news accounts, and a few mug shots, Gross demonstrates how black female crime in Philadelphia in 1880–1910 was jointly constructed by the perpetrators and the state. According to Gross, some black women used crime as a means to gain personal and social autonomy. While for the state, black female crime and its representations "effectively galvanized, justified, and anchored a host of urban reform initiatives that affirmed white middle-class authority" (p. 3).

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