The practice of citizenship : Black politics and print culture in the early United States /
Spires, Derrick Ramon,author.
'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.
Includes bibliographical references (page 309-331) and index.
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".
'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.
African Americans
African Americans
Citizenship
Citizenship
Citizenship in literature.
American literature
American literature
American literature
American literature.
American literature
Citizenship.
Citizenship in literature.