This text examines African Americans' experiences under the law and how that in turn has fostered a rich tradition of legal criticism in African American culture. INDICE: - Introduction: Justice Unveiled; L.King& R.Schur - PART I: RIGHTSAND SOVEREIGNTY - Reading Back, Reading Black; B.Capers - W.E.B. Du Bois and the Right to Privacy; K.F.C.Holloway - Martin R. Delany and Rhetorics of Divided Sovereignty; R.R.Zuck - On Black Freedmen; M.Fletcher - It Falls to You: Rawls, Bartleby, and the Ethics of Affirmative Action in Charles Johnson's 'Executive Decision'; W.Gleason - PART II: LEGAL VIOLENCE - On Lucy Terry; S.Harris- The Fire Next Time and the Law; D.Q.Miller - 'Fists and the Voices of Sorrowful Women': Race, Gender, and the Law's Violence in Toni Morrison's Jazz; C.Copeland - When Testimony Fails: Law and the Comforts of Intimacy in Gayl Jones's Corregidora; R.Wanzo - PART III: OWNING CULTURE - Papa's Got a Brand New Bag: James Brown, Innovation, and Copyright Law; K.J.Greene - Legal Fictions: Trademark Discourse and Race; R.Schur - The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the (Over) Development of Gangsta Rap; A.Folami - Afterword; L.King -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61988-3
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 13/01/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés