Brian Baaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 8478299 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Baaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Baaki |
| SIGNATURE | BAAKI B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brian Baaki received his PhD in English from the City University of New York, Graduate Center in 2016. His dissertation, which considers the importance of criminal discourse in the development of an early African American literary project, was awarded “The Melvin Dixon Prize for the Best Dissertation in African American Studies” at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is currently a lecturer in the English department at the University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Circulating the Black Rapist
This article examines texts produced in response to the criminal trial of Joseph Mountain to illuminate the early construction of the black rapist in American print. The central text in its analysis is Mountain's own “criminal confession,” Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain (1790). This article views Mountain's text as a response to a different set of concerns than later narratives of African Americans convicted of rape and positions Mountai…
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Circulating the Black Rapist
This article examines texts produced in response to the criminal trial of Joseph Mountain to illuminate the early construction of the black rapist in American print. The central text in its analysis is Mountain's own “criminal confession,” Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain (1790). This article views Mountain's text as a response to a different set of concerns than later narratives of African Americans convicted of rape and positions Mountai…
American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Biography (1 work) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (1 work) · Confession (law (1 work) · Criminal trial (1 work) · Criminology (1 work) · History (1 work)