Convulsed in desperate living : ghetto criminality and the economy of survival in the Harlem narratives of Chester Himes, Claude Brown and Louise Meriwether

In the 1960s and early 1970s, the radicalism of African-American leaders such as Malcolm X, George Jackson and Eldridge Cleaver found expression in polemical writings that targeted, in their critique of established white power structures, the American judicial and penal system. Drawing their rhetori...

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Main Author: Godin, Julie
Format: Others
Published: 1998
Online Access:http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/750/1/MQ40001.pdf
Godin, Julie <http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/view/creators/Godin=3AJulie=3A=3A.html> (1998) Convulsed in desperate living : ghetto criminality and the economy of survival in the Harlem narratives of Chester Himes, Claude Brown and Louise Meriwether. Masters thesis, Concordia University.