Bibliograph

Insurrection, rebellion, civil rights, and the paradoxical state of Black citizenship, Hawa Allan

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Insurrection, rebellion, civil rights, and the paradoxical state of Black citizenship, Hawa Allan

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-244) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Insurrection

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1252848448

Responsibility statement

Hawa Allan

Sub title

rebellion, civil rights, and the paradoxical state of Black citizenship

Summary

The Insurrection Act of 1807 (passed amid pervasive fears of slave rebellions) authorizes the president to deploy federal troops to quell domestic uprisings. Invoked during Reconstruction and the civil rights movement, the Act was deployed to enforce the promise of equal citizenship for Black Americans. But the Act has also authorized federal military intervention to suppress so-called race riots after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and during the 1992 Los Angeles rebellion; more recently,when the US Capitol was stormed, in January 2021, the Act lay dormant. Hawa Allan argues that the invocation of the Act to either enforce civil rights or suppress riots reflects the enduring struggle to incorporate Black Americans as full citizens of the United States. She demonstrates how the Insurrection Act exposes America's most enduring conflicts: over racial injustice, human rights, equal citizenship, and federal power. --Adapted from jacket

Table Of Contents

Introduction: in the beginning was the word -- "Progress." Be not afraid or dismayed ; So that every mouth may be silenced ; A house divided ; They will bring a mob against you -- Time loop. Turn to him the other cheek ; Eye for an eye ; Disaster upon disaster ; The beginning and the end -- Exodus

Target audience

adult

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