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Staff Picks: Love Poems to Black Women Prisoners in the United States / Damaris B. Hill
Writer DaMaris Hill traces a history, and present, of Black women imprisoned in America – under a parallel regime of sexual violence and exploitation in the Jim Crow era and beyond, subject to the edges of a legal and economic system built on repression, risking freedom and safety in the simple acts of navigating daily life in a racist country.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/a-bound-woman-is-a-dangerous-thing-9781635572629/
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