Salamishah Tillet

Sites of Slavery

Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

In Sites of Slavery Salamishah Tillet examines how contemporary African American artists and intellectuals-including Annette Gordon-Reed, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Bill T. Jones, Carrie Mae Weems, and Kara Walker-turn to the subject of slavery in order to understand and challenge the ongoing exclusion of African Americans from the founding narratives of the United States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822352426
• ISBN-10: 0822352427
• Artikelnr.: 34748260

Autorenporträt

Salamishah Tillet

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Peculiar Citizenships 1
1. Freedom in a Bondsmaid's Arms: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and the
Persistence of African American Memory 19
2. The Milder and More Amusing Phases of Slavery: Uncle Tom's Cabin and
Black Satire 51
3. A Race of Angels: (Trans)Nationalism, African American Tourism, and the
Slave Forts 95
4. What Have We Done to Weigh So Little on Their Scale: Mnemonic
Restitution and the Aesthetics of Racial Reparations 133
Epilogue. The President's House, Freedom, and Slavery in the Age of Obama
169
Notes 179
Bibliography 195
Index 217