{"product_id":"a-bound-woman-is-a-dangerous-thing-the-incarceration-of-african-american-women-from-harriet-tubman-to-sandra-bland","title":"A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNominated for an NAACP Image Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Top 10 History Title for the season\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e's Top 10 Diverse Nonfiction titles for the year\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookRiot\u003c\/i\u003e's \"50 Must-Read Poetry Collections\"\u003cbr\u003eMost Anticipated Books of the Year--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus, Nylon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revelatory work in the tradition of Claudia Rankine's\u003ci\u003e Citizen\u003c\/i\u003e, DaMaris Hill's searing and powerful narrative-in-verse bears witness to American women of color burdened by incarceration.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It is costly to stay free and appear \/ sane.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Harriet Tubman to Assata Shakur, Ida B. Wells to Sandra Bland and Black Lives Matter, black women freedom fighters have braved violence, scorn, despair, and isolation in order to lodge their protests. In A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing, DaMaris Hill honors their experiences with at times harrowing, at times hopeful responses to her heroes, illustrated with black-and-white photographs throughout.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor black American women, the experience of being bound has taken many forms: from the bondage of slavery to the Reconstruction-era criminalization of women; from the brutal constraints of Jim Crow to our own era’s prison industrial complex, where between 1980 and 2014, the number of incarcerated women increased by 700%.* For those women who lived and died resisting the dehumanization of confinement--physical, social, intellectual--the threat of being bound was real, constant, and lethal. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing, Hill presents bitter, unflinching history that artfully captures the personas of these captivating, bound yet unbridled African-American women. Hill’s passionate odes to Zora Neale Hurston, Lucille Clifton, Fannie Lou Hamer, Grace Jones, Eartha Kitt, and others also celebrate the modern-day inheritors of their load and light, binding history, author, and reader in an essential legacy of struggle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*The Sentencing Project\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bloomsbury USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781635572612\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £2.76","offer_id":47916726288561,"sku":"SB-1635572614-C3","price":2.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1635572614.jpg?v=1789228307","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-bound-woman-is-a-dangerous-thing-the-incarceration-of-african-american-women-from-harriet-tubman-to-sandra-bland","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}