Title: Two Guns from Harlem
Description: Two Guns from Harlem probes Himes's early life and career for the roots of this series and for its heroes, Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. Skinner discusses how Himes's experience as a black man, combined with his unique outlook on sociology, politics, violence, sex, and race relations, resulted not only in an unusual portrait of black America but also opened the way for the creation of the ethnic and female hard-boiled detectives who followed.
Subjects: African Americans in literature, History and criticism, African American police in literature, Criticism and interpretation, American Detective and mystery stories, In literature, Harlem (New York, N.Y.) in literature
Places: Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
People: Chester B. Himes (1909-)