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04453aam a2200553 i 4500 001 50C5419C2E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240619010048 008 230901t20242024msua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023039679 020 $a 1496848209 020 $a 9781496848208 020 $a 1496848195 020 $a 9781496848192 035 $a (OCoLC)1378366941 040 $a MsSM/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d CDX $d GWL $d YDX $d OCLCO $d YDX $d EYR $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS153.B53 $b B76 2024 100 1 $a Brown, Christopher Michael $c (English teacher), $e author. 245 10 $a See justice done : $b the problem of law in the African American literary tradition / $c Christopher Michael Brown. 264 1 $a Jackson : $b University Press of Mississippi, $c [2024] 300 $a xiii, 195 pages : $b illustration ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-190) and index. 505 00 $t In formation: the aesthetics of police encounters. $t Seditious prose: patriots and traitors in nineteenth-century African American literature -- $t "Our racket's within th'law, ain't it?": reproducing the anxiety of the color line in black no more -- $t Was blind but now I see: colorblind justice and the unmaking of race -- $t In formation: the aesthetics of police encounters. 520 $a "In See Justice Done: The Problem of Law in the African American Literary Tradition, author Christopher Michael Brown argues that African American literature has profound and deliberate legal roots. Tracing this throughline from the eighteenth century to the present, Brown demonstrates that engaging with legal culture in its many forms-including its conventions, paradoxes, and contradictions-is paramount to understanding Black writing. Brown begins by examining petitions submitted by free and enslaved Blacks to colonial and early republic legislatures. A virtually unexplored archive, these petitions aimed to demonstrate the autonomy and competence of their authors. Brown also examines early slave autobiographies such as Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative and Mary Prince's History, which were both written in the form of legal petitions. These works invoke scenes of Black competence and of Black madness, repeatedly and simultaneously. Early Black writings reflect how a Black Atlantic world, organized by slavery, refused to acknowledge Black competence. By including scenes of Black madness, these narratives critique the violence of the law and predict the failure of future legal counterparts, such as Plessy v. Ferguson, to remedy injustice. Later chapters examine the works of more contemporary writers, such as Sutton E. Griggs, George Schuyler, Toni Morrison, and Edward P. Jones, and explore varied topics from American exceptionalism to the legal trope of "colorblindness." In chronicling these interactions with jurisprudential logics, See Justice Done reveals the tensions between US law and Black experiences of both its possibilities and its perils"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a African Americans $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a American literature $x Theory, etc. $x History and criticism $x Theory, etc. 650 0 $a African Americans $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Law and literature $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Law $x History. $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Race discrimination $x History. $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a African Americans $x History. $x History. 650 6 $a Droit et litterature $z Etats-Unis $x Histoire. 650 6 $a Noirs americains $x Histoire. $x Histoire. 650 7 $a African Americans $x Civil rights $2 fast 650 7 $a African Americans $x Legal status, laws, etc. $2 fast 650 7 $a Law and literature $2 fast 650 7 $a Law $x Social aspects $2 fast 650 7 $a Race discrimination $x Law and legislation $2 fast 651 7 $a United States $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast 655 7 $a History $2 fast 776 08 $i Online version: $a Brown, Christopher Michael. $t See justice done $d Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2024] $z 9781496848215 $w (DLC) 2023039680 830 0 $a Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619011337.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=50C5419C2E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search