Sites of Slavery Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination |
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| Author:
| Tillet, Salamishah |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8223-5261-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2012 |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $26.95 |
Book Description:
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In Sites of Slavery Salamishah Tillet examines how contemporary African American artists and intellectuals--including Annette Gordon-Reed, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Bill T. Jones, Carrie Mae Weems, and Kara Walker--turn to the subject of slavery in order to understand and challenge the ongoing exclusion of African Americans from the founding narratives of the United States.
In Sites of Slavery Salamishah Tillet examines how contemporary African American artists and intellectuals--including Annette Gordon-Reed, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Bill T. Jones, Carrie Mae Weems, and Kara Walker--turn to the subject of slavery in order to understand and challenge the ongoing exclusion of African Americans from the founding narratives of the United States.