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The practice of citizenship, Black politics and print culture in the early United States, Derrick R. Spires

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The practice of citizenship, Black politics and print culture in the early United States, Derrick R. Spires

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 309-331) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The practice of citizenship

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1045647328

Responsibility statement

Derrick R. Spires

Sub title

Black politics and print culture in the early United States

Summary

'The Practice of Citizenship' traces the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship. Considering a variety of texts by both canonical and lesser-known authors, Derrick R. Spires demonstrates how black writers articulated an expansive, practice-based theory of citizenship

Table Of Contents

Black theorizing : reimagining a "Beautiful but Baneful Object" -- Neighborly citizenship in Absalom Jones and Richard Allen's A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late and Awful Calamity in Philadelphia in the Year 1793 -- Circulating citizenship in the Black state conventions of the 1840s -- Economic citizenship in Ethiop and Communipaw's New York -- Critical citizenship in the Anglo-African Magazine, 1859-1860 -- Pedagogies of revolutionary citizenship -- Conclusion : "To Praise Our Bridges"

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Black politics and print culture in the early United States

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