Disturbing the peace [electronic resource] : Black culture and the police power after slavery / Bryan Wagner.
Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.Description: vii, 307 p. : illISBN:- 9780674035089 (alk. paper)
- 0674035089 (alk. paper)
- African Americans -- Social life and customs
- African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism
- Legends -- History and criticism
- Ballads -- History and criticism
- Police power -- Southern States -- History
- Police-community relations -- Southern States -- History
- African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877
- African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964
- 305.896/073 22
- E185.86 .W334 2009eb

Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Black tradition from Ida B. Wells to Robert Charles -- The strange career of bras-coup�e -- Uncle Remus and the Atlanta Police Department -- The Black tradition from George W. Johnson to Ozella Jones.
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