Black Outlaws: Race, Law, and Male Subjectivity in African American Literature and Culture

by Carlyle Van Thompson and Carlyle Thompson

In this provocative and original exploration of Black males and the legal establishment, Carlyle Van Thompson illuminates the critical issues defining Black male subjectivity. Since the days of Black people's enslavement and the days of Jim Crow segregation, Black males have been at odds with the legal and extra-legal restrictions that would maintain white supremacy and white male privilege. Grounded in the voices of Frederick Douglass and David Walker,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082048637X
• ISBN13: 9780820486376
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"