Writing on the Streets: Popular Literature and the Bad Black Hero

This dissertation examines the various ways in which pop-cultural illustrations of the “bad nigger” figure beginning in the late 1960s helped to shape the kinds of defiant and oppositional practices that define the lives of black male youths today. I offer a brief history of the cultural and literar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Winston, Dennis 1979-
Other Authors: Brown, Kimberly N
Format: Others
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/148291