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work_tdyzby7r7fgxhgyeyitcd27eka	Jesse A. Goldberg	Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination by Salamishah Tillet	2015	5	.pdf	application/pdf	2266	127	57	Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination by Salamishah Tillet (review) Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights In Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post-Civil Rights Imagination, Salamishah Tillet explores the way in which post-civil rights African Americans return to "sites of slavery"—"the objects, texts, figures, places and narratives from the American slavery"—in order to produce a "democratic aesthetic" which responds to the "civic estrangement" of contemporary African American citizenship in the United States (5). defines "civic estrangement" as "the paradox post-civil rights African Americans experience slavery in the civic sphere [achieved by returning, as the figures in Tillet's book do, to sites reads Gordon-Reed's books both as illustrating African American civic estrangement's at how post-civil rights African American writers and artists return to Uncle Tom's Cabin Tillet pushes to consider the contradictions she sees in heritage tourism: the clash of desires of African Americans to imagine 	./cache/work_tdyzby7r7fgxhgyeyitcd27eka.pdf	./txt/work_tdyzby7r7fgxhgyeyitcd27eka.txt