Under a Bad Sign: Criminal Self-representation in African American Popular Culture
by Jonathan Munby
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Paperback / softback. New. What accounts for the persistence of the figure of the black criminal in popular culture created by African Americans? This title explores the rationale behind this tradition of criminal self-representation from the Harlem Renaissance to the gangsta culture. It traces the legacy of badness in Rudolph Fisher and Chester Himes' detective fiction.
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- Title
- Under a Bad Sign: Criminal Self-representation in African American Popular Culture
- Author
- Jonathan Munby
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New
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- 10
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0226550362
- ISBN 13
- 9780226550367
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- This edition first published
- 2011
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