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Sanctuary - African Americans and Empire (Hardcover)
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Sanctuary - African Americans and Empire (Hardcover)
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In 2005, hurricane Katrina and its aftermath starkly revealed the
continued racial polarization of America. Disproportionately
impacted by the ravages of the storm, displaced black victims were
often characterized by the media as "refugees." The
characterization was wrong-headed, and yet deeply revealing.
Sanctuary: African Americans and Empire traces the long history of
this and related terms, like alien and foreign, a rhetorical
shorthand that has shortchanged black America for over 250 years.
In tracing the language and politics that have informed debates
about African American citizenship, Sanctuary in effect illustrates
the historical paradox of African American subjecthood: while
frequently the target of legislation (slave law, the Black Codes,
and Jim Crow), blacks seldom benefited from the actions of the
state. Blackness helped to define social, cultural, and legal
aspects of American citizenship in a manner that excluded black
people themselves. They have been treated, rather, as foreigners in
their home country. African American civil rights efforts worked to
change this. Activists and intellectuals demanded equality, but
they were often fighting for something even more fundamental: the
recognition that blacks were in fact human beings. As citizenship
forced acknowledgement of the humanity of African Americans, it
thus became a gateway to both civil and human rights.
Waligora-Davis shows how artists like Langston Hughes underscored
the power of language to define political realities, how critics
like W.E.B. Du Bois imagined democratic political strategies, and
how they and other public figures have used their writing as a
forum to challenge the bankruptcy of a social economy in which the
value of human life is predicated on race and civil identity.
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