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The practice of citizenship : Black politics and print culture in the early United States
- Title
- The practice of citizenship : Black politics and print culture in the early United States / Derrick R. Spires.
- Author
- Spires, Derrick Ramon
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
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Details
- Description
- 344 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- Black politics and print culture in the early United States
- Subject
- 1700-1899
- African Americans > Political activity > History > 18th century
- African Americans > Political activity > History > 19th century
- Citizenship > United States > History > 18th century
- Citizenship > United States > History > 19th century
- Citizenship in literature
- American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- American literature > 18th century > History and criticism
- American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- American literature
- American literature > African American authors
- Citizenship
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 309-331) and index.
- Contents
- Black Theorizing: Reimagining a "Beautiful but Baneful Object"; Chapter 1. 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; Chapter 2. Circulating Citizenship in the Black State Conventions of the 1840s; Chapter 3. Economic Citizenship in Ethiop and Communipaw's New York; Chapter 4. Critical Citizenship in the Anglo-African Magazine, 1859-1860; Chapter 5. Pedagogies of Revolutionary Citizenship; Conclusion. "To Praise Our Bridges".
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-1525
- ISBN
- 9780812250800
- 081225080X
- LCCN
- 2018033304
- 40029360597
- OCLC
- 1045647328
- Author
- Spires, Derrick Ramon, author.
- Title
- The practice of citizenship : Black politics and print culture in the early United States / Derrick R. Spires.
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page 309-331) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1700-1899
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029360597
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-1525