Introduction. In the shadows of citizenship: African Americans and the alterity of democracy -- Frederick Douglass's "glib-tongue": African American rhetoric and the language of national belonging -- Merely rhetorical: virtual democracy in clotel -- Rhythm nation: African American poetics and the discourse of freedom -- Black and tan fantasy: Walt Whitman, African Americans, and sounding the nation -- Framing the margins: geometries of space and the aesthetics of nationalism -- The spectacle of disorder: race, decoration, and the social -- The colored museum.
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