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Hoodlums - Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life (Hardcover)
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Hoodlums - Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life (Hardcover)
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Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X. Muhammad Ali. When you think of
African American history, you think of its heroes--individuals
endowed with courage and strength who are celebrated for their bold
exploits and nobility of purpose. But what of black "villains"?
Villains, just as much as heroes, have helped define the black
experience.
Ranging from black slaveholders and frontier outlaws to serial
killers and gangsta rappers, "Hoodlums" examines the pivotal role
of black villains in American society and popular culture. Here,
William L. Van Deburg offers the most extensive treatment to date
of the black badman and the challenges that this figure has posed
for race relations in America. He first explores the evolution of
this problematic racial stereotype in the literature of the early
Republic--documents in which the enslavement of African Americans
was justified through exegetical claims. Van Deburg then probes
antebellum slave laws, minstrel shows, and the works of proslavery
polemicists to consider how whites conceptualized blacks as members
of an inferior and dangerous race. Turning to key works by blacks
themselves, from the writings of Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. Du
Bois to classic blaxploitation films like "Black Caesar" and "The
Mack," Van Deburg demonstrates how African Americans have combated
such negative stereotypes and reconceptualized the idea of the
badman through stories of social bandits--controversial individuals
vilified by whites for their proclivity toward evil, but revered in
the black community as necessarily insurgent and revolutionary.
Ultimately, Van Deburg brings his story up-to-date with discussions
of prison and hip-hop culture, urban rioting, gangwarfare, and
black-on-black crime. What results is a work of remarkable
virtuosity--a nuanced history that calls for both whites and blacks
to rethink received wisdom on the nature and prevalence of black
villainy.
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