If We Must Die: From Bigger Thomas to Biggie Smalls

by Aimé J. Ellis

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 disciplinary practice of social control over black men. In this provocative volume, Ellis delves into a variety of literary and cultural texts to consider unlawful and extralegal violence like...

• 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"