title: Traces, Codes, and Clues: Reading Race in Crime Fiction
author:  Maureen T Reddy 
description: Detective fiction featuring white women and people of color-such as Barbara Neely's Blanche White and Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins-has become tremendously popular. Although they are considered "light reading," mysteries also hold important cultural and social "clues." Much recent scholarly work has demonstrated that race is both a cultural fiction-not a biological reality-and a central organizing principle of experience. Popular writers are likely to reflect the conventions of their own historical situations. <P> In <I>Traces, Codes, and Clues: Reading Race in Crime Fiction</I>, Maureen T. Reddy explores the ways in which crime fiction manipulates cultural constructions such as race and gender to inscribe dominant cultural discourses. She notes that even those writers who appear to set out to revise outdated conventions repeatedly reproduce the genre's most conservative elements. The greatest obstacle to transforming crime fiction, Reddy states, is the fact that the genre itself is deeply embedded in the discourse of white (and male) superiority. There is, therefore, an absolute necessity to break away from that discourse-through reversal or other strategies-in order to produce work that defies, and thus helps readers to defy, the dominant ideology of race.
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  THE FULFILLMENT
  
  
  THE FULFILLMENT SERIES
  
  
  Book Three
  
  
  Erin Rhew
  
  
  Published by Tenacious Books Publishing
  
  
  Copyright © 2013 Erin Rhew
  
  
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  Published by Tenacious Books Publishing in 2018
  
  
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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
  either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  
  Rhew, Erin.--Third edition.
  
  
  The Fulfillment / Erin Rhew
  
  
  ISBN 978-0-9998978-4-3 (print)
  
  
  ISBN 978-0-9998978-3-6 (e-book)
  
  
  Cover Image: © iStock
  
  
  Cover Design: Anita B. Carroll www.race-point.com
  
  
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