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Author Waligora-Davis, Nicole, 1973-

Title Sanctuary : African Americans and empire / Nicole A. Waligora-Davis
Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 218 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Contents; Preface: Seeking Asylum: An Essay on Form and Content; Acknowledgments; 1. Exile; 2. W.E.B. Du Bois and the World Citizen; 3. Sanctuary; 4. Graphic Inscriptions of Power: Th e 1919 Chicago Race Riots; 5. "I Dream a World": Occupied Haiti and African Americans; Epilogue : Requiem; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
Summary Sanctuary examines how race relations and the struggle for civil rights influenced American attitudes toward imperialism and helped to produce a black community whose alienated status resembles refugees and stateless persons
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject African Americans in literature.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Race awareness -- United States
Race in literature.
Racism -- United States
Refugees -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
African Americans -- Civil rights
African Americans in literature
African Americans -- Social conditions
Race awareness
Race in literature
Race relations
Racism
Refugees
Social policy
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
United States -- Social policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140547
Subject United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010025256
ISBN 9780195369915
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