Bøger af Frankie Y. Bailey
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343,95 kr. Prostitution, gambling, moonshine and drugs could all be found behind closed the closed doors of Danville, VA from 1919 to 1933. During Prohibition, the Law and Order League," of Danville was, of course, "dry," but the city's mayor was personally was known to be "personally wet," and in 1911 citizens were shocked to discover that the police chief was a fugitive from a murder conviction in Georgia. That same period saw lynching, murders and the wreck of the Old '97. HP authors Frankie Bailey and Alice Green will examine the law and disorder of Prohibition era Danville with Wicked Danville: Crime, Justice, and Prohibition in a Southside Virginia City."
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- A Historical and Thematic Study
453,95 kr. Presents a study that examines the works of modern African American mystery writers within the social and historical contexts of African American literature on crime and justice. This title offers an historical overview that describes the movement by African American authors from slave narratives and antebellum newspapers into fiction writing.
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- Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction
1.020,95 kr. Contending that a "mythology of race" consisting of themes of sex and savagery exists in the United States and is perpetuated in popular culture, the author identifies stereotypical images of blacks in crime and detective fiction and probes the implied values and collective fantasies found there.
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