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' 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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Spires, Derrick Ramon (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Subjects:	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. 1700-1899 Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Genre:	Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Physical Description:	344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Variant Title:	Black politics and print culture in the early United States
Format:	Book

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".