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

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Tillet, Salamishah
Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
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xvi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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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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9780822352426 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822352427 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822352617 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822352613 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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