02084nam a2200229Ia 4500 231023s9999 xx 000 0 und d 2011053371 9780822352617 E185.615.T575 2012 326.0973-- dc23 Tillet, Salamishah 1745 Sites of Slavery : Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination / Salamishah Tillet Duke University Press Books; 2012 248p; 24x16cm 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. English 21st century E151-889 History of the Americas- United States 1746 Race Relations. Slavery 1747 United States. 1748 BK 3706 3706 0 0 lcc 0 0 SAFL SAFL 0003-07-23 MM2023 Reading Room 0 E151-889 201.363 3706 2023-10-24 2023-10-24 BK