Ishmael Reed
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When Papa LaBas (private eye, noonday HooDoo, and hero of Reed's Mumbo Jumbo ) comes to Berkeley, California, to investigate the mysterious death of E
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d Yellings, owner of the Solid Gumbo Works, he finds himself fighting the rising tide of violence propagated by Louisiana Red and those militant opportunists, the Moochers. A HooDoo detective story and a comprehensive satire on the explosive politics of the '60s, The Last Days of Louisiana Red exposes the hypocrisy of contemporary American culture and race politics.
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