If We Must Die: From Bigger Thomas to Biggie Smalls

by Aimé J. Ellis

Investigates a variety of texts in which the self-image of poor, urban black men in the U.S. is formed within, by, and against a culture of racial terror and state violence.

In If We Must Die: From Bigger Thomas to Biggie Smalls, author Aim J. Ellis argues that throughout slavery, the Jim Crow era, and more recently in the proliferation of the prison industrial complex, the violent threat of death has functioned as a coercive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081433413X
• ISBN13: 9780814334133
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"