The Long Emancipation: Moving Toward Black Freedom

by Rinaldo Walcott

Book Overview

In The Long Emancipation Rinaldo Walcott posits that Black people globally live in the time of emancipation and that emancipation is definitely not freedom. Taking examples from across the globe, he argues that wherever Black people have been emancipated from slavery and colonization, a potential freedom has been thwarted. Walcott names this condition the long emancipation--the ongoing interdiction of potential Black freedom and the continuation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478014059
• ISBN13: 9781478014058
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"