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The monkey suit and other short fiction on African Americans and justice
- Title
- The monkey suit and other short fiction on African Americans and justice / by David Dante Troutt.
- Author
- Troutt, David Dante.
- Publication
- New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 1998.
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Details
- Description
- x, 317 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- In this genre-bending series of short stories, David Dante Troutt has fictionalized the history of ten classic legal cases involving African Americans, transforming his research into tales of rare force and craft.
- The ten cases will be familiar to many readers; included are Powell v. Alabama (1932), the principal Scottsboro Boys case; Buchanan v. Warley (1917), the first challenge to the constitutionality of segregation; and Mapp v. Ohio (1961), in which warrantless searches were deemed unconstitutional.
- Critical turning points in the law and the nation's history, these cases also become, in Troutt's telling, points of departure in an exploration of human feeling - and black experience. "The Tale of Almost" (inspired by The State of South Carolina v. Kelly, 1920), for example, recounts the troubles of Will Kelly, a black man accused of thinking about attacking a young white girl.
- Alternative Title
- Monkey suit
- Subjects
- Contents
- Glow in the Dark -- The Tale of Almost -- The Bargain -- For Love of Trains -- Never Was -- Junius Dogman and the Mischief -- Bitch, Son of a Bitch -- Tell About Tellin' -- Love Space -- The Monkey Suit.
- ISBN
- 1565843266
- LCCN
- 97023023
- OCLC
- 37004514
- ocm37004514
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries