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Black villains and social bandits in American life
By William L. Van Deburg
"Hoodlums" was published by University of Chicago Press in 2004 - Chicago, it has 283 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Hoodlums” Metadata:
- Title: Hoodlums
- Author: William L. Van Deburg
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 283
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publish Date: 2004
- Publish Location: Chicago
“Hoodlums” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ History - Race relations - African American criminals - Crime and race - African Americans in popular culture - Villains in popular culture - Social conditions - African Americans - African americans, social conditions - United states, race relations - Criminels noirs américains - Histoire - Criminalité et race - Noirs américains - Conditions sociales - Noirs américains dans la culture populaire - Méchants dans la culture populaire - Relations raciales
- Places: United States
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: xiv, 283 p. ;
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL3289730M - OL2649050W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 833574354 - 54529025
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2004003549
- ISBN-10: 0226847195
- All ISBNs: 0226847195
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"Hoodlums" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Villainy in black and white
- 2- Slaves as subversives
- 3- Blacks and social banditry
- 4- Gangland : crime and culture in contemporary America.
"Hoodlums" Description:
The Open Library:
"Ranging from black slaveholders and frontier out-laws to serial killers and gangsta rappers, Hoodlums examines the pivotal role of black villains in American society and popular culture. Here William L. Van Deburg offers the most extensive treatment to date of the "black badman" and the challenges that this figure has posed for race relations in America. He first explores the evolution of this problematic racial stereotype in the literature of the early Republic - documents in which the enslavement of African Americans was justified through exegetical claims. Van Deburg then probes antebellum slave laws, minstrel shows, and the works of proslavery polemicists to consider how whites conceptualized blacks as members of an inferior and dangerous race. Turning to key works by blacks themselves, from the writings of Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du Bois to classic blaxploitation films like Black Caesar and The Mack, Van Deburg demonstrates how African Americans have combated such negative stereotypes and reconceptualized the idea of the badman through stories of social bandits - controversial individuals vilified by whites for their proclivity toward evil, but revered in the black community as necessarily insurgent and revolutionary."--BOOK JACKET.
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