Description: Practice of Citizenship : Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States, Hardcover by Spires, Derrick R., ISBN 081225080X, ISBN-13 9780812250800, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
In the years between the American Revolution and the . 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 revolution, and the myriad daily interactions between people living in the same spaces, citizenship, they argued, is not defined by who one is but, rather, by what one does.
In The Practice of Citizenship, Derrick R. Spires examines the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of . citizenship, beginning in 1787, with the framing of the federal Constitution and the founding of the Free African Society by Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, and ending in 1861, with the onset of the Civil War. Between these two points he recovers understudied figures such as William J. Wilson, whose 1859 "Afric-American Picture Gallery" appeared in seven installments in The Anglo-African Magazine, and the physician, abolitionist, and essayist James McCune Smith. He places texts such as the proceedings of black state conventions alongside considerations of canonical figures such as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Frederick Douglass.
Reading black print culture as a space where citizenship was both theorized and practiced, Spires reveals the degree to which concepts of black citizenship emerged through a highly creative and diverse community of letters, not easily reducible to representative figures or genres. From petitions to Congress to Frances Harpers parlor fiction, black writers framed citizenship both explicitly and implicitly, th demonstrates, not simply as a response to white supremacy but as a matter of course in the shaping of their own communities and in meeting their own political, social, and cultural needs.
Price: 46.31 USD
Location: Jessup, Maryland
End Time: 2025-02-09T09:11:43.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Return policy details:
Book Title: Practice of Citizenship : Black Politics and Print Culture in the
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Practice of Citizenship : Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: American / African American, American / General, Civics & Citizenship, Subjects & Themes / Politics, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Item Height: 1.2 in
Item Weight: 24.3 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Political Science, Social Science
Author: Derrick R. Spires
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
