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 artists...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tillet, Salamishah (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2012.
Temas:
1900-2099
African Americans > Political activity.
Slavery > United States > History.
Memory > Social aspects > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
Memory > Social aspects.
Race relations.
Slavery.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
United States > Race relations > History > 21st century.
United States.
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : sites of slavery
  • 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 : African American reparations and the moral economy of memory
  • Epilogue the president's house, freedom, and slavery in the age of Obama.

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