Race, Theft, and Ethics

"Race, Theft, and Ethics shows how African American literature deals with the racialized history of unequal economic opportunity in highly complex and nuanced ways, and illustrates that, for many authors, an essential aspect of their work involved contemplating the tensions between a given code of ethics and a moral course of action. A deft combination of history, literature, law, and economics, King's groundbreaking work highlights the pervasiveness of the property/race/ethics dynamic in the interfaces of African American lives with American law."--BOOK JACKET

Criminology · Epistemology · Political science · Property (philosophy) · Race (biology) · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · African American authors · african american authors, history and criticism · African americans in literature · American - African American · American - African American & Black · American literature · Criticism · Ethics in literature · History and criticism · Law in literature · Literary Criticism · Literature - Classics · Property in literature · Race discrimination in literature · Theft in literature