Under a bad sign : criminal self-representation in African American popular culture /
Munby, Jonathan.
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Original gangsta culture: fortune economy and the criminal mediation of black entry into urban modernity -- Sin city cinema: the underworld race films of Oscar Micheaux and Ralph Cooper -- Hustlers in the house of literature: Julian Mayfield -- Chester Himes, and the black literary ghetto -- From Up tight! to Dolemite: the changing politics of Baadasssss cinema -- Keeping it reel: from goines to gangsta -- Epilogue: global gangsta-life in death.
African Americans in popular culture.
African American arts.
Crime in popular culture
Popular culture