Category Archives: Cotton Comes to Harlem

What’s Happenin??

One huge event that took place in the late 1960s were the Manson murders. Charles Mason since childhood had had problems with the law, before the murders he went to prison twice before becoming the head of the “Mason Family” … Continue reading Continue reading

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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 elements … Continue reading Continue reading

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Crimes of All Kinds

While reading Cotton Comes to Harlem, I was a little taken back by the language used and the harshness of the writing. I wasn’t expecting such detail, that really made me cringe at some points like when they are talking … Continue reading Continue reading

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