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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, [2012]Copyright date: copyright 2012Description: xvi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780822352426 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780822352617 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E185.615 .T575 2012
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
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Book Book UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة E185.615 .T575 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.1 Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط 30010011142599
Book Book UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة E185.615 .T575 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) C.2 Available 30010011142598

Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-224) and index.

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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