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Under a bad sign : criminal self-representation in African American popular culture
- Title
- Under a bad sign : 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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Details
- Description
- ix, 216 p.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: "Cruel Stack O'Lee": trickster badness and the fight against subordination in African American vernacular culture -- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 12-229
- ISBN
- 9780226550350 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226550354 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226550367 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0226550362 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010048788
- OCLC
- 666235001
- Author
- Munby, Jonathan.
- Title
- Under a bad sign : criminal self-representation in African American popular culture / Jonathan Munby.
- Imprint
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 12-229