(Download pdf) Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery
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| #729051 in Books | Harvard University Press | 2009-10-30 | 2009-09-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.30 x.90 x6.10l,1.45 | File Name: 0674035089 | 307 pages |
||8 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Lucid and compelling--highly recommended|By AJ|This is a wonderful book. Right off the bat, it's noteworthy at the level of style: the book is not only lucid and---strikingly, given the strength of its intellectual commitments---jargon-free, it is actually (gasp!) engaging, and not only for the specialist. In fact, the prose achieves that rarity in academic writing: it is a p||Bryan Wagner's Disturbing the Peace is a great book. I am enriched and fundamentally challenged by its erudition, its attention to detail and the force of its extremely powerful arguments. It is my sense that anyone working in black studies has to cont
W. C. Handy waking up to the blues on a train platform, Buddy Bolden eavesdropping on the drums at Congo Square, John Lomax taking his phonograph recorder into a southern penitentiary―some foundational myths of the black vernacular remain inescapable, even as they come under increasing pressure from skeptics.
In Disturbing the Peace, Bryan Wagner revises the history of the black vernacular tradition and gives a new account of black culture by reading t...
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