Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination
A study of how slavery is remembered in American culture and its impact on ideas of citizenship and racial democracy after the civil rights era.
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This book explores the ways slavery continues to shape ideas of citizenship and democracy in the United States.
It analyzes cultural texts and public debates that revisit the legacy of slavery in the post–civil rights period.
The work considers how racial justice and national belonging are imagined through references to the history of enslavement.
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