If we must die [[electronic resource] ] : from Bigger Thomas to Biggie Smalls / / Aime J. Ellis
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| Autore: |
Ellis Aimé J. <1969-2009.>
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| Titolo: |
If we must die [[electronic resource] ] : from Bigger Thomas to Biggie Smalls / / Aime J. Ellis
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| Pubblicazione: | Detroit, Mich., : Wayne State University Press, c2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.38/896073 |
| Soggetto topico: | African American men - Social conditions |
| African American men - Psychology | |
| Masculinity - Social aspects - United States | |
| Death - Social aspects - United States | |
| Masculinity - United States - Psychological aspects | |
| Death - United States - Psychological aspects | |
| Racism - United States - History | |
| State-sponsored terrorism - United States - History | |
| African American men in popular culture | |
| American literature - African American authors - History and criticism | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | "Boys in the hood" : Black male community in Richard Wright's Native son -- "It's a man's world" : rethinking Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on ice in the twenty-first century -- "Am I black enough for you?" : Black male authenticity in Nathan McCall's Makes me wanna holler : a young Black man in America -- Death bound : the thug life -- "How does it feel?" : a question of life and death in D'Angelo's "Untitled." |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Investigates a variety of texts in which the self-image of poor, urban black men in the U.S. is formed within, by, and against a culture of racial terror and state violence. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | If we must die |
| ISBN: | 0-8143-3665-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811024203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
African American life.