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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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"Munby is an engaging writer, a scholar with extraordinary mastery of a vast array of black expressive texts, and an original thinker about the relationships linking artistic works and their social and historical contexts. This is a splendid book whose argument will be of enormous value to both scholarship and civic life." (George Lipsitz, University of California, Santa Barbara)"

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/07/2011
      ISBN13: 9780226550367, 978-0226550367
      ISBN10: 0226550362
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      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "Munby is an engaging writer, a scholar with extraordinary mastery of a vast array of black expressive texts, and an original thinker about the relationships linking artistic works and their social and historical contexts. This is a splendid book whose argument will be of enormous value to both scholarship and civic life." (George Lipsitz, University of California, Santa Barbara)"

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