By Justin Gifford
Gifford attracts from a magnificent array of archival fabrics to supply a first-of-its-kind literary and cultural heritage of this particular style. He evaluates the creative and symbolic representations of pimps, sex-workers, drug buyers, and political revolutionaries in African American crime literature-characters seeking to break out the racial containment of prisons and the ghetto.
Gifford additionally explores the struggles of those black writers within the literary industry, from the period of white-owned publishing homes like Holloway House-that fed books and magazines like avid gamers to keen black readers-to the modern crop of African American girls writers reclaiming the style as their own.
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