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Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship
Maybe someday
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Readers
34/100Critics
44/100Scholars
Author:
Hawa Allan
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
January 4, 2022
The little-known and under-studied 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off lawlessness and rebellion, but it soon became much more than the sum of its parts. Its power is integrally linked to the perceived threat of black American equity.
What The Reviewers Say
Allan chronicles not just the history of the hundreds of years of racism on this continent, but pays special attention to the extraordinary events of the past several years, while linking them to the past.
A meditative history.
Incisive.
[Allan] provocatively but convincingly argues.
