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Author:

Tillet, Salamishah.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xvi, 224 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Political activity.
United States--History--History--20th century.
United States--History--History--21st century.
Slavery--United States--History.
Memory--Social aspects--United States.

Notes:

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

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

ISBN:

0822352613 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822352617 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822352427 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822352426 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)769429992

LCCN:

2011053371

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)