Seizing citizenship : Frederick Douglass's abolitionist republicanism / Philip Yaure.
| Author/creator | Yaure, Philip author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025] |
| Description | xx, 204 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Frederick Douglass's abolitionist republicanism |
| Series | Oxford new histories of philosophy Oxford new histories of philosophy. ^A1464026 |
| Contents | On plantation politics -- American citizenship, constitutional interpretation, and antislavery resistance -- Black solidarity and republican citizenship -- 'This multiform composite nationality' : emancipation and empire in Frederick Douglass's pan-American republicanism -- Vulnerable citizens. |
| Abstract | "In the years leading up to the American Civil War, former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass maintained that Black Americans, whether enslaved or nominally free, were already American citizens whom the polity ought to recognize as such. Through a systematic analysis of his political writings from the 1840s through the 1890s, Seizing Citizenship demonstrates that Douglass's declaration of Black Americans's citizenship is the locus of a profound innovation in republican political philosophy. Douglass reimagines the republican concept of citizenship, on which persons are citizens because they contribute to the polity, to cast the everyday resistance of Black Americans against slavery and white supremacy as activity that constitutes them as American citizens. Douglass advances an abolitionist republicanism, on which persons seize standing as free citizens of a free polity through struggle to dismantle the oppressive institutions that dominate and exploit them. Douglass's is a republican politics that strives not to overcome our vulnerability to one another, but instead to deepen such vulnerability on terms conducive to our shared emancipation and collective flourishing"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Yaure, Philip Seizing citizenship New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025] 9780197776766 |
| LCCN | 2025015746 |
| ISBN | 9780197776735 |
| ISBN | 0197776736 paperback |
| ISBN | 9780197776728 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0197776728 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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