african american detection -Bailey

Question 1

Are white writers creating black characters and readers are buying their books?

Answer 1

Yes

Question 2

Are black writers visible in the publishing world`?

Answer 2

Not, so much

Question 3

Did African american characters appear early in american crime and detective fiction=

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

Give an example of african american character in early detective fiction

Answer 4

Edgar Allen Poe has a black servant named Jupiter in his short story- The gold bug

Question 5

What is considered to be a contribution to the detective genre.

Answer 5

red herrings and misdirections

Question 6

How does poe depict Jupiter?

Answer 6

comic, ignorant, devoted to his master

Question 7

What were the perception in the US and Europe about blacks?

Answer 7

That they were a few evolutionary steps removed from the oranguatns or apes.

Question 8

what was seen as a threat in the US in the post-civil era?

Answer 8

the alleged threat of the “ new Negro criminal ” was used
to justify repressive measures by the criminal justice system and extra - legal justice in
the hands of white vigilantes.

Question 9

Did the black man Henry Highland Garnet -a former slave who met Doyle challenge Doyle’s notions about race?

Answer 9

Yes

Question 10

What impressed Doyle about Garnet=

Answer 10

His manner and his intelligence.

Question 11

Who went on a lecture tour in the antebellum era?

Answer 11

During the antebellum era, ex - slave abolitionists such as
Frederick Douglass and Henry Highland Garnet went on the lecture circuit and wrote
about slavery as both an “ institution ” and a “ crime ” against humanity

Question 12

Who made a unique contribution to american literature?

Answer 12

African - American abolitionists made a unique contribution to American literature with “ slave narratives ” that drew on Native American “ captivity narratives, ”
biography, and the sentimental novel.

Question 13

what was being challenged in the courts of law?

Answer 13

the crimes that were being committed by whites
against blacks were challenged as they rarely were in courts of law.

Question 14

who is the foremother of african american mysteries?

Answer 14

Pauline E. Hopkins was an editor and contributor to Colored American

Question 15

who was Pauline Hopkins?

Answer 15

she was one of the generation of educated African -
American women who were speaking out on both race and gender issues.

Question 16

What are black characters appearing as in golden-age fiction?

Answer 16

In golden age detective fi ction, black characters generally appeared in minor
roles as servants.

Question 17

What did Bruce and hopkins do in their fiction=

Answer 17

They used detective fiction to explore social issues with the african american.

Question 18

What marked the emergence of the black sleuth=

Answer 18

Rudolph Fisher a physician - writer who had participated
in the literary and intellectual movement known as the Harlem Renaissance, published the fi rst genre detective novel by an African - American featuring black protagonists and set in Harl

Question 19

what plays a role in the works of the early african american genre?

Answer 19

spiritualism, use of language, and music) discussed by Stephen Soitos in The
Blues Detective (1996) plays a prominent role.

Question 20

what makes fisher’s novels classic detective ?

Answer 20

Fisher ’ s novel and short story
featuring Dart and Archer have the characteristics of classic detective fi ction, with
a closed circle of suspects, the presence of an amateur detective working in conjunction with the police investigator, and a puzzle to be solved before the murderer is
revealed.

Question 21

what links fisher’s novels and short stories to hard-boiled fiction?

Answer 21

At the same time, the violence in the side streets of Harlem and the problems (e.g., domestic violence and drug addiction)

Question 22

What was Richard Wright’s novel “native son “ inspiration?

Answer 22

Wright, who was infl uenced by
Dostoevsky, took as his subject the nature of crime and justice in racist America.

Question 23

What did african-Americans hope to achive after w. w. w 2?

Answer 23

Double Victory ” by fi ghting for democracy while
winning their own rights as citizens.

Question 24

what kind of african americans were portrayed during th post-war era?

Answer 24

It was during this postwar period that several white writers
created African - American characters that deviated from the stereotypes of the 1920s
and 30s.

Question 25

What did the post-war era saw the rise of?

Answer 25

Police procedural as a sub genre of crime fiction.

Question 26

who wrote the first short story featuring african american police deteective to appear in ellery queen mystery magazine?

Answer 26

African - American writer Hughes Allison wrote the fi rst short
story featuring an African - American police detective to appear in Ellery Queen Mystery
Magazine. I

Question 27

Who is chester Himes?

Answer 27

an african american writer who wrote about the detective duo grave digger jones and coffin ed johjnson

Question 28

what did coffin ed and grave digger understand?

Answer 28

the linkes between white oppression and crime and violence in the black ghetto.

Question 29

Who is John D. Ball?

Answer 29

won an Edgar for In the Heat of the Night , the book that introduced
the African - American series detective Virgil Tibbs

Question 30

What differnt type of african american hero did ernest tidyman shaft give?

Answer 30

Shaft was a black PI, a Vietnam vet and war hero who had attended New York
University before dropping out to become a private investigator.

Question 31

What is the staple of the blaxploitaion films of the era=

Answer 31

In these fi lms, intended to appeal to an urban audience, black protagonists typically
took on organized crime, corrupt and brutal cops, and genocidal bigots

Question 32

the Black Arts Movement produced a number of works
that have been described as “ anti - detective novels. what does this mean=

Answer 32

Ishmael
Reed and Clarence Major wrote books featuring black protagonists who viewed mysteries and their solutions from an Afrocentric perspective.Major for instance focus on racial oppressions.

Question 33

What themes were written about in the post civil rights era=

Answer 33

hard - boiled stories about gangsters, pimps, drugs, and police corruption that

Question 34

who wrote devil in a blue dress=

Answer 34

walter mosely

Question 35

Were is devil in the blue dress set? name the protagonist

Answer 35

Postwar los angeles. protagonist Easy Rawlins.

Question 36

What is devil in the blue dress about?

Answer 36

To pay his mortgage, Easy accepts an
assignment to fi nd the missing fi anc é e of a wealthy white politician. He is suited for
the job because the missing woman likes to hang out in jook joints and blues clubs
in the black community, places that no white detective could go without attracting
attention. Finding that he likes the work, and the money, Easy becomes a part - time
snoop for hire in subsequent adventures.

Question 37

What did Robert Greer in his floyd series write about=

Answer 37

Greer explores the neglected history of blacks in the
American West, including black rodeo stars and cowboys. The protagonist is C.J. Floyd.

Question 38

Why is the use of education work experience by african american often used?

Answer 38

This use of education/work
experience by African - American mystery writers is, of course, not unusual, since
writers are typically advised to draw on their life experience.

Question 39

What is Soitos argument about black cultural aesthetics in the works of african american writers in genral?

Answer 39

. References to African -
American history and culture often provide a subtext to these stories.

Question 40

According to Bailey has some of the best-know african american mystery protagonists been created by white writers?

Answer 40

yes

Question 41

What does James weldon johnson mean by the double audience?

Answer 41

In order to succeed as mystery writers, arguably African - American writers
must attract both black and white readers to their works.