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Beyond Civil Disobedience: Social Nullification and Black Citizenship (African American Philosophy and the African Diaspora)

✍ Scribed by Charles F. Peterson

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2021
Tongue
English
Leaves
144
Edition
1st ed. 2021
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

This book interrogates the nature and state of African American citizenship through the prism of Social Contract Theory. Challenging the United States’ commitment to African American citizenship, this book explores the idea of Social Nullification, the decision to reject, revoke and re-define the social contract with a state and society. Charles F. Peterson surveys the history of Social Contract Theory, examines Nullification as political and legal theory, argues public policy as a measure of the state’s commitment to the contractarian relationship and frames the writings and activism of Martin R. Delany, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and the African American Reparations Movement as examples of Social Nullification and challenges to the terms of Black life in America.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1: Citizenship and Its Discontents: Introduction to Beyond Civil Disobedience—Social Nullification and Black Citizenship
I.
II.
III.
Chapter 2: “Is It Not Wrong, a Balance Which Tilts, a Plummet Which Deflects”: A Survey of Social Contract Theory
I.
II.
III.
IV.
References
Chapter 3: Crises of Legitimacy and Social Nullification Theory
I.
Nullification as Theory
II.
Social Nullification
References
Chapter 4: The Severed Bond: Policy and the Materiality of the Failing State
I. Citizens in the Material World
II. Criminal Justice
III. Housing
IV. Healthcare
V. Citizenship Isn’t an Idea, It’s a Practice
References
Chapter 5: “To Establish a Different Order of Things”: Reconstructions of Afri-Civic Identity
I. National Compacts and the Impossibilities of African-American Citizenship
II. De Contra Civic
III. Healing the Breach and Recognizing the Chasm
References
Chapter 6: Conclusion: The Call of a Different Drummer
I.
II.
III.
IV.
References
Index

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