Sites of Slavery : Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination /

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"More than forty years after the major victories of the civil rights movement, African Americans have a vexed relation to the civic myth of the United States as the land of equal opportunity and justice for all. In Sites of Slavery Salamishah Tillet examines how contemporary African American ar...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tillet, Salamishah
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Rasrelationer > förenta staterna.
Slavery.
Race relations.
Memory > Social aspects.
Esclavage > États-Unis > Histoire.
Noirs americains > Activite politique.
Memory > Social aspects > United States.
Slavery > United States > History.
African Americans > Political activity.
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 21e siecle.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
United States > Race relations > History > 21st century.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : peculiar citizenships
  • Freedom in a bondsmaid's arms : Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and the persistence of African-American memory
  • The milder and more amusing phases of slavery : Uncle Tom's cabin and black satire
  • A race of angels : (trans) nationalism, African-American tourism, and the slave forts
  • What have we done to weigh so little on their scale : mnemonic restitution and the aesthetics of racial reparations
  • Epilogue the president's house, freedom, and slavery in the age of Obama

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