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Book Review: Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women in Prison
by Paula C. Johnson, 339 pp. ,
New York Univiversity Press, 2003, hardcover
Review by Silja J.A. Talvi
Attention to African American women in prison is paid so rarely, and with so little depth, that Paula C. Johnson's Inner Lives stands as an invaluable contribution to the emerging modern genre ...
New York Univiversity Press, 2003, hardcover
Review by Silja J.A. Talvi
Attention to African American women in prison is paid so rarely, and with so little depth, that Paula C. Johnson's Inner Lives stands as an invaluable contribution to the emerging modern genre ...
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