- Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 216 p.)
- Uniform Title
- Under a bad sign (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Under a bad sign (Online)
- Subject
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Original gangsta culture: fortune economy and the criminal mediation of black entry into urban modernity -- Sin city cinema: the underworld race films of Oscar Micheaux and Ralph Cooper -- Hustlers in the house of literature: Julian Mayfield -- Chester Himes, and the black literary ghetto -- From Up tight! to Dolemite: the changing politics of Baadasssss cinema -- Keeping it reel: from goines to gangsta -- Epilogue: global gangsta-life in death.
- LCCN
- 2010048788
- OCLC
- ssj0000555685
- Author
Munby, Jonathan.
- Title
Under a bad sign [electronic resource] : criminal self-representation in African American popular culture / Jonathan Munby.
- Imprint
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Access
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