Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police Power After Slavery by Bryan Wagner

Disturbing the Peace: Black Culture and the Police Power After Slavery

Bryan Wagner

307 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history politics sociology informative slow-paced
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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 inescap...

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