Free Joan Little: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment by Greene, Christina
Free Joan Little: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment by Greene, Christina

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...
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Author: Christina Greene
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Free Joan Little: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment by Greene, Christina

Free Joan Little: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment

$1,964.27
Free Joan Little: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment by Greene, Christina

Free Joan Little: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment

$1,964.27
Author: Christina Greene
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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. After turning herself in, Little faced a possible death sentence in the state's gas chamber. At her trial, which was followed around the world, Little claimed that she had killed Alligood in self-defense against sexual assault. Local and national figures took up Little's cause, protesting her innocence. After a five-week trial, Little was acquitted. But the case stirred debate about a woman's right to use deadly force to resist sexual violence.

Through the prism of Little's rape-murder trial and the Free Joan Little campaign, Christina Greene explores the intersecting histories of African American women, mass incarceration, sexual violence, and social movements of the 1970s and 1980s. Greene argues that Little's circumstances prior to her arrest, assault, and trial were shaped by unprecedented increases in federal financing of local law enforcement and a decades-long criminalization of Blackness. She also reveals tensions among Little's defenders and recovers Black women's intersectional politics of the period, which linked women's prison protest and antirape activism with broader struggles for economic and political justice.



Author: Christina Greene
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 11/22/2022
Pages: 362
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.62lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781469671307
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