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Out of the Woodpile: Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction

Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction

by Frankie E. Bailey

204 pages · 1991

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This first sociohistorical study of the evolution of black detectives and other African American characters in crime and detective fiction identifies stereotypical images of blacks and probes the implied values and collective fantasies found in this genre

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