Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination

Sites of Slavery by Salamishah Tillet is a groundbreaking exploration of how contemporary African American artists and intellectuals reconstruct sites of slavery to understand and challenge ongoing exclusion from founding narratives of the United States.

Through meticulous research and persuasive arguments, Tillet uncovers the interiority and subjectivity denied slaves in American history, revealing the civic estrangement experienced by African Americans post-civil rights era.

This book provides a more fully realized American democracy by envisioning a future where slaves are given agency and voice.

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