Research Catalog

Title

Free Joan Little : the politics of race, sexual violence, and imprisonment / Christina Greene.

Author

Greene, Christina, 1951-

Publication

• Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Description

348 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 Alligood in self-defense against sexual assault. 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 1970s and 1980s social movements"--

Series Statement

Justice, power, and politics

Subject

• Little, Joan > Trials, litigation, etc
• Little, Joan
• Trials (Murder) > North Carolina
• Justifiable homicide > North Carolina
• Sexual abuse victims > North Carolina
• African American women > Legal status, laws, etc
• Prisoners > Civil rights > North Carolina
• Anti-rape movement > United States
• African American feminists > History
• African American feminists
• Anti-rape movement
• Justifiable homicide
• Prisoners > Civil rights
• Sexual abuse victims
• Trials
• Trials (Murder)
• Legal status
• Feminists
• African American women
• Prisoners
• North Carolina
• United States

Genre/Form

• History.
• Trials, litigation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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. 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 -- Part II. 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 -- Part III. 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 -- Postscript.

Call Number

Sc E 23-853

ISBN

• 9781469671307
• 1469671301
• 9781469671314
• 146967131X
• 9781469671321 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781469671338 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022022448

OCLC

1338165734

Author

Greene, Christina, 1951- author.

Title

Free Joan Little : the politics of race, sexual violence, and imprisonment / Christina Greene.

Publisher

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Justice, power, and politics

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

Sc E 23-853