Hoodlums: Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life

Hoodlums: Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life
ISBN-10
0226847195
ISBN-13
9780226847191
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
283
Language
English
Published
2004-11-15
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
William L. Van Deburg

Description

Du Bois to classic blaxploitation films like Black Caesar and The Mack, Van Deburg demonstrates how African Americans have combated such negative stereotypes and reconceptualized the idea of the badman through stories of social bandits - controversial individuals vilified by whites for their proclivity toward evil, but revered in the black community as necessarily insurgent and revolutionary."--BOOK JACKET.

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