Author: William L. Van Deburg

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2004-11-15

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780226847191

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."--BOOK JACKET.