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.

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 is Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

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