I'm wrapping up this year's Juneteenth special in the 1970s with Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo and Clarence Major's Reflex and Bone Structure. Both these men experimented with detective fiction creating the anti-detective and taking the books into the mystic realm through double consciousness and metaphysics. But like the writers of the past, they used their words as a form of activism, speaking out against the violence and class issues they saw in their times.

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Sources for the show come from Polar Noir: Reading African-American Detective Fiction on https://books.openedition.org/pufr/5776?lang=en

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