The Monkey Suit, and Other Short Fiction on African Americans and Justice
Description
"Rich and engaging" (Emerge) short stories on African Americans and the law in the tradition of Derrick Bell and Richard Wright. The Monkey Suit is David Dante Troutt's "impressive" debut (Kirkus Reviews), a collection of short stories inspired by historic legal cases involving African Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Monkey Suit addresses issues ranging from Jim Crow segregation ordinances to warrantless private property searches in stories the Washington Post calls "quietly devastating." Troutt brilliantly combines legal scholarsh...
ISBN(s)
1565843266, 9781565843264
