Whispered consolations : law and narrative in African American life /
Suggs, Jon Christian,1940-
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,
c2000.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-390) and index.
In search of justice and jurisprudence -- Romance and resistance -- The romance of desire and identity -- Privacy, property, and self -- Law and the urbanization of narrative in "postproperty" African American life -- Lynchings and passing -- Resistance in Renascence -- At the end of histories.
African Americans
Race discrimination
Law in literature.
American literature