Includes bibliographical references (page 309-331) and index.
Contents
Black theorizing : reimagining a "Beautiful but Baneful Object" -- 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 -- Circulating citizenship in the Black state conventions of the 1840s -- Economic citizenship in Ethiop and Communipaw's New York -- Critical citizenship in the Anglo-African Magazine, 1859-1860 -- Pedagogies of revolutionary citizenship -- Conclusion : "To Praise Our Bridges".
Summary
'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, practice-based theory of citizenship.
