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- Title: Inventing the Savage
- Author : Luana Ross
- Release Date : January 01, 1998
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1975 KB
Description
In this pathfinding study, Ross draws upon the life histories of imprisoned Native American women to demonstrate how race/ethnicity, gender, and class contribute to the criminalizing of various behaviors and subsequent incarceration rates. Drawing on the Native women's own words, she reveals the violence in their lives prior to incarceration, their respective responses to it, and how those responses affect their eventual criminalization and imprisonment. Comparisons with the experiences of white women in the same prison underline the significant role of race in determining women's experiences within the criminal justice system.