The Practice of Citizenship Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States

• Main Author: Spires, Derrick R
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc 2019; University of Pennsylvania Press
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: African Americans; American literature; Citizenship; Citizenship in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM

In the years between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more racially restrictive, black writers articulated an expansive, practice-based theory of citizenship. Grounded in political participation, mutual aid, critique and revol...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Contents -- Introduction. 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" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments