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Black Capitalism Comes to Harlem

Cotton Comes to Harlem: Black Capitalism from Jim Groom on Vimeo. This week in hardboiled we read Chester Himes’s 1964 novel Cotton Comes to Harlem as well as watched the 1970 proto-blaxploitation film adaptation by Ossie Davis. One of the … Continue reading

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Assault on Precinct 13

I am getting ready to embark on a series of posts that feature the ten most formative movies of my youth (and I stress movies here because none of them are films in the class-inscribed, pejorative sense). While doing my … Continue reading

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