African American culture and legal discourse /
African American culture and legal discourse /
edited by Lovalerie King and Richard Schur ; with a foreword by Gerald Horne.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- xiii, 257 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : "Justice unveiled" / Reading back, reading black, and Buck v. Bell / W.E.B. Du Bois and the right to privacy / Martin R. Delany and rhetorics of divided sovereignty / On Black freedmen in Indian country / It falls to you : Rawls, Bartleby, and the ethics of affirmative action in Charles Johnson's "executive decision" / Lucy Terry : a life of radical resistance / The fire next time and the law / "Fists and the voices of sorrowful women" : race, gender, violence, and the reconstruction of the work in Toni Morrison's Jazz / When testimony fails : laws and the comforts of intimacy in Gayl Jones's Corregidora / Papa's got a brand new bag : James Brown, innovation, and copyright law / Legal fictions : trademark discourse and race / The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the overdevelopment of gangsta rap / Lovalerie King and Richard Schur -- I. Bennett Capers -- Karla F.C. Holloway -- Rochelle Raineri Zuck -- Matthew L.M. Fletcher -- William Gleason -- Sharon M. Harris -- D. Quentin Miller -- Charlton Copeland -- Rebecca Wanzo -- K.J. Greene -- Richard Schur -- Akilah N. Folami.
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African Americans--Intellectual life.
African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.--History.
Race discrimination--Law and legislation--History.--United States
Law--Social aspects--History.--United States
Law and literature--History.--United States
Literature and society--History.--United States
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : "Justice unveiled" / Reading back, reading black, and Buck v. Bell / W.E.B. Du Bois and the right to privacy / Martin R. Delany and rhetorics of divided sovereignty / On Black freedmen in Indian country / It falls to you : Rawls, Bartleby, and the ethics of affirmative action in Charles Johnson's "executive decision" / Lucy Terry : a life of radical resistance / The fire next time and the law / "Fists and the voices of sorrowful women" : race, gender, violence, and the reconstruction of the work in Toni Morrison's Jazz / When testimony fails : laws and the comforts of intimacy in Gayl Jones's Corregidora / Papa's got a brand new bag : James Brown, innovation, and copyright law / Legal fictions : trademark discourse and race / The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the overdevelopment of gangsta rap / Lovalerie King and Richard Schur -- I. Bennett Capers -- Karla F.C. Holloway -- Rochelle Raineri Zuck -- Matthew L.M. Fletcher -- William Gleason -- Sharon M. Harris -- D. Quentin Miller -- Charlton Copeland -- Rebecca Wanzo -- K.J. Greene -- Richard Schur -- Akilah N. Folami.
9780230619883 (alk. paper) 0230619886 (alk. paper)
2009015664
African Americans--Intellectual life.
African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.--History.
Race discrimination--Law and legislation--History.--United States
Law--Social aspects--History.--United States
Law and literature--History.--United States
Literature and society--History.--United States
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
E185.86 / .A3316 2009
342.7308/73