Sites of Slavery (Record no. 3706)
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| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2011053371 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780822352617 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | E185.615.T575 2012 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 326.0973-- |
| Item number | dc23 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Tillet, Salamishah |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1745 |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Sites of Slavery |
| Remainder of title | : Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | / Salamishah Tillet |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Duke University Press Books; |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2012 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 248p; |
| Dimensions | 24x16cm |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | More than forty years after the major victories of the civil rights movement, African Americans have a vexed relation to the civic myth of the United States as the land of equal opportunity and justice for all. 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. She explains how they reconstruct "sites of slavery"—contested figures, events, memories, locations, and experiences related to chattel slavery—such as the allegations of a sexual relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, the characters Uncle Tom and Topsy in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, African American tourism to slave forts in Ghana and Senegal, and the legal challenges posed by reparations movements. By claiming and recasting these sites of slavery, contemporary artists and intellectuals provide slaves with an interiority and subjectivity denied them in American history, register the civic estrangement experienced by African Americans in the post–civil rights era, and envision a more fully realized American democracy. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | English |
| 648 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CHRONOLOGICAL TERM | |
| Chronological term | 21st century |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | E151-889 History of the Americas- United States |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1746 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Race Relations. Slavery |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1747 |
| 651 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | United States. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1748 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| SAF Reference Library | SAF Reference Library | 07/23/3 | MM2023 Reading Room | E151-889 201.363 | 10/24/2023 | 10/24/2023 | Book |