Beyond Civil Disobedience: Social Nullification and Black Citizenship
Charles F. Peterson, "Beyond Civil Disobedience: Social Nullification and Black Citizenship "
English | ISBN: 3030775534 | 2021 | 146 pages | PDF | 1531 KB
English | ISBN: 3030775534 | 2021 | 146 pages | PDF | 1531 KB
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.