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Under a bad sign criminal self-representation in African American popular culture

Title
Under a bad sign [electronic resource] : criminal self-representation in African American popular culture / Jonathan Munby.
Author
Munby, Jonathan.
Publication
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

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Description
1 online resource (ix, 216 p.)
Uniform Title
Under a bad sign (Online)
Alternative Title
Under a bad sign (Online)
Subject
  • African Americans in popular culture
  • African American arts
  • Crime in popular culture > United States
  • Popular culture > United States
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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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