The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States . Derrick R. Spires. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. 352.
2020; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 118; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1086/709650
ISSN1545-6951
Autores Tópico(s)American Constitutional Law and Politics
ResumoNot to be outdone by Spires’s examination of Absalom Jones and Richard Allen is chapter 5, “Pedagogies of Revolutionary Citizenship,” in which the author takes up questions of consciousness raising, revolutionary violence, and literary representation in the writings, speeches, and activism of the civil rights and feminist icon, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. “The retrospective and reflective nature of Harper’s work also occasions a critique of the previous chapters, a warning that even if the principles I outline here are consistent in nature, their application must adapt to the contingencies of context. In a broader sense, her meditations on the sublime … raise questions about the relation between revolution, righteous violence, and citizenship and prompt us to ask, ‘What happens after critique?’” (32).
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