In this study, Knadler examines how African American writers, often traveling to the margins of a nineteenth and early twentieth-century U.S. Empire, developed sets of cross-racial, cross-national identifications, sympathies and alliances that caused...
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In this study, Knadler examines how African American writers, often traveling to the margins of a nineteenth and early twentieth-century U.S. Empire, developed sets of cross-racial, cross-national identifications, sympathies and alliances that caused them to challenge dominant ideas of U.S. nationalism, democracy and citizenship
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Black Politics and Diasporic Intimacy: Remapping the Nation and Citizenship; Part I: Transnational Citizenship in the "Golden Age of Black Nationalism"; 1 "To Breathe Central America": Hemispheric Interplays and Martin Delany's Imagining of Citizenship in the Colored Republic; 2 Fashioning Democracy in America: Eliza Potter, Elizabeth Keckley, and Black Working-Class Women in the Consumer Republic
3 Trans-American Seductions and Creolized Black Reconstruction: The Imagining of Democratic Agency in Post-Civil War African-American FictionPart II: Reconstructing Black Citizenship at the Age of Empire; 4 Accommodated Citizenship: Black Cowboys and the Borderland West; 5 Sensationalizing Patriotism: Sutton Griggs and the Sentimental Nationalism of Citizen Tom; 6 Policing the Isthmus: The Contested Transpacifi c Geography of a New World Negro; Epilogue: The Signifyin(g) Monkey Round the World; Notes; Bibliography; Index
