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Title:

African American culture and legal discourse / edited by Lovalerie King and Richard Schur ; with a foreword by Gerald Horne.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xiii, 257 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Intellectual life.
African Americans--History.--History.
Race discrimination--History.--United States--History.
Law--History.--United States--History.
Law and literature--United States--History.
Literature and society--United States--History.
American literature--Theory, etc.--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Other Authors:

King, Lovalerie.
Schur, Richard L.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : "Justice unveiled" / Lovalerie King and Richard Schur -- Reading back, reading black, and Buck v. Bell / I. Bennett Capers -- W.E.B. Du Bois and the right to privacy / Karla F.C. Holloway -- Martin R. Delany and rhetorics of divided sovereignty / Rochelle Raineri Zuck -- On Black freedmen in Indian country / Matthew L.M. Fletcher -- It falls to you : Rawls, Bartleby, and the ethics of affirmative action in Charles Johnson's "executive decision" / William Gleason -- Lucy Terry : a life of radical resistance / Sharon M. Harris -- The fire next time and the law / D. Quentin Miller -- "Fists and the voices of sorrowful women" : race, gender, violence, and the reconstruction of the work in Toni Morrison's Jazz / Charlton Copeland -- When testimony fails : laws and the comforts of intimacy in Gayl Jones's Corregidora / Rebecca Wanzo -- Papa's got a brand new bag : James Brown, innovation, and copyright law / K.J. Greene -- Legal fictions : trademark discourse and race / Richard Schur -- The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the overdevelopment of gangsta rap / Akilah N. Folami.

ISBN:

0230619886 (alk. paper)
9780230619883 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)316829509

LCCN:

2009015664

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)