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      The Monkey Suit and Other Short Fiction on African Americans and Justice

      by David Dante Troutt
      Published
      Feb 1998
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      328
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      The Monkey Suit is David Dante Troutt's "impressive" debut (Kirkus), a collection of short stories inspired by historic legal cases involving African Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Monkey Suit addresses issues ranging from Jim Crow segregation ordinances to warrantless private property searches in stories the Washington Post calls "quietly devastating." Troutt brilliantly combines legal scholarship with literature in a book that Claude Brown calls "truly a work of genius."


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      Apr 1999 New Press ISBN13 9781565845244 ISBN10 1565845242
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      First Edition Feb 1998 New Press ISBN13 9781565843264 ISBN10 1565843266
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