Sites of slavery : citizenship and racial democracy in the post-civil rights imagination / Salamishah Tillet.

Author/creator Tillet, Salamishah
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Descriptionxvi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents 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
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011053371
ISBN9780822352617
ISBN9780822352426 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822352427 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822352613 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks E185.615 .T575 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold