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Under a Bad Sign: Criminal Self-Represent ation in African American Popular...
by Munby, Jonathan | PB | VeryGood
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- Subject Area
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- Publication Name
- Under a Bad Sign : Criminal Self-Representation in African American Popular Culture
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- University of Chicago Press
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- Film / General, American / African American, Popular Culture, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Publication Year
- 2011
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- English
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What accounts for the persistence of the figure of the black criminal in popular culture created by African Americans? Unearthing the overlooked history of art that has often seemed at odds with the politics of civil rights and racial advancement, Under a Bad Sign explores the rationale behind this tradition of criminal self-representation from the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary gangsta culture. In this lively exploration, Jonathan Munby takes a uniquely broad view, laying bare the way the criminal appears within and moves among literary, musical, and visual arts. Munby traces the legacy of badness in Rudolph Fisher and Chester Himes's detective fiction and in Claude McKay, Julian Mayfield, and Donald Goines's urban experience writing. Ranging from Peetie Wheatstraw's gangster blues to gangsta rap, he also examines criminals in popular songs. Turning to the screen, the underworld films of Oscar Micheaux and Ralph Cooper, the 1970s blaxploitation cycle, and the 1990s hood movie come under his microscope as well. Ultimately, Munby concludes that this tradition has been a misunderstood aspect of African American civic life and that, rather than undermining black culture, it forms a rich and enduring response to being outcast in America.
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226550362
ISBN-13
9780226550367
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99662139
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Under a Bad Sign : Criminal Self-Representation in African American Popular Culture
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Film / General, American / African American, Popular Culture, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Social Science, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
224 Pages
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Item Length
0.9 in
Item Height
0 in
Item Width
0.7 in
Item Weight
11.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
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2010-048788
LeafCats
378
Lc Classification Number
E185.M898 2011
Table of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction: "Cruel Stack O'Lee": Trickster Badness and the Fight against Subordination in African American Vernacular Culture 1 Original Gangsta Culture: Fortune Economy and the Criminal Mediation of Black Entry into Urban Modernity 2 Sin City Cinema: The Underworld Race Films of Oscar Micheaux and Ralph Cooper 3 Hustlers in the House of Literature: Julian Mayfield, Chester Himes, and the Black Literary Ghetto 4 From Up Tight! to Dolemite : The Changing Politics of Baadasssss Cinema 5 Keeping It Reel: From Goines to Gangsta Epilogue: Global Gangsta--Life in Death Notes Index
Copyright Date
2011
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
973/.0496073
Dewey Edition
22
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