African American Culture and Legal Discourse

1. Introduction: “Justice Unveiled”
Lovalerie King, Richard Schur

Part I. Rights and Sovereignty

2. Reading Back, Reading Black, and Buck v. Bell
I. Bennett Capers

3. W. E. B. Du Bois and the Right to Privacy
Karla F. C. Holloway

4. Martin R. Delany and Rhetorics of Divided Sovereignty
Rochelle Raineri Zuck

5. On Black Freedmen in Indian Country
Matthew L. M. Fletcher

6. It Falls to You
William Gleason

Part II. (Il)Legal Violence

7. Lucy Terry
Sharon M. Harris

8. The Fire Next Time and the Law
D. Quentin Miller

9. “Fists and the Voices of Sorrowful Women”
Charlton Copeland

10. When Testimony Fails
Rebecca Wanzo

Part III. Owning Culture

11. Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag
K. J. Greene

12. Legal Fictions
Richard Schur

13. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the Overdevelopment of Gangsta Rap
Akilah N. Folami

14. Afterword
Lovalerie King

Keywords: Literature, North American Literature, Literary History, African American Culture, American Culture, Regional and Cultural Studies