Summary Of No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, By Sarah Haley

Sarah Haley is a professor of UCLA who has a PHD in African American Studies. She is one of the few people on the planet who possesses such classification. Her work is primarily focused on African Americans and in her book No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity, she tackles the world of African American women and how imprisonment affects them. She owns a few prestigious awards. In terms of any other people who does studies in African American lives the only other person that I know that is remotely as decorated as she is would probably be prof. Henry Louis Gates of Harvard. The significance in this case is that she a women also has all these prestigious titles and many more than her male counterparts. Haley tackles the explanation of colored women and the jurisdictional system that always seems to forget about their humanity during the span of the twentieth century. …show more content…
The woman’s aunt, Lula Walker was pleading to the court system on behalf of her niece who unjustly served a guilty sentence. Essentially Lula walker began to attack the system for unjustly incarcerated black women racially, giving them little to no resources. In her own words Haley stated in her own words “ This book blends a history of ideology with social history in order to shed greater light on the development of systems of terror, structures of economic and political subordination, and hidden dimensions of working- class African American women’s lives.” ( Haley,