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Author Suggs, Jon Christian, 1940-

Title Whispered consolations : law and narrative in African American life / Jon-Christian Suggs
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource
Series Law, meaning, and violence
Law, meaning, and violence.
Contents 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
Summary Explores the relationship between African American literature and American law
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-390) and index
Notes English
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Subject African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Race discrimination -- Law and legislation -- United States
Justice.
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Justice
Race discrimination -- Law and legislation
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020706855
ISBN 9780472022823
0472022822
1282444514
9781282444515
9786612444517
6612444517