The Politics of Black Citizenship: Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817-1863 9780820349374, 0820349372

Becoming American under Fire: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship during the Civil War Era 9780801463761

In Becoming American under Fire, Christian G. Samito provides a rich account of how African American and Irish American

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Promises of Citizenship: Film Recruitment of African Americans in World War II 1496812360, 9781496812360

Since the earliest days of the nation, US citizenship has been linked to military service. Even though blacks fought and

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The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti 9780812296549

The Black Republic explores the critical but overlooked place of Haiti in black thought in the post-Civil War era. Follo

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The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States 9780812295771

The Practice of Citizenship traces the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understa

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The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States 9780812250800, 081225080X

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Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans 9780520965508

What do you think of when you hear about an African American Republican? Are they heroes fighting against the expectatio

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History in Black: African-Americans in Search of an Ancient Past [1 ed.] 0714650625, 9780714650623

The development of Afrocentric historical writing is explored in this study which traces this recording of history from

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Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity 9780813541327

For most of the twentieth century, Brazil was widely regarded as a "racial democracy"-a country untainted by t

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Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship 9780814784709

Americans Without Law shows how the racial boundaries of civic life are based on widespread perceptions about the relati

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Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City 9780300164091

Part detective tale, part social and cultural narrative, Black Gotham is Carla Peterson's riveting account of her q

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