Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic Smith Cassander L.
Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic Smith Cassander L. Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic examines the means through which people of African descent embodied tenets of…
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Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic Smith Cassander L.
Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic examines the means through which people of African descent embodied tenets of respectability as a coping strategy to navigate enslavement and racial oppression in the early Black Atlantic world. Today respectability politics can be seen in how those within and outside Black communities police the behavior of Black celebrities, critique protest movements, and celebrate accomplishments by people of African descent who break racial barriers.To study the origins of the complicated relationship between race and respectability, Cassander L. The term "respectability politics" refers to the way members of a minoritized population adopt the customs and manners of a dominant culture in order to gain visibility and combat negative stereotypes about their subject group.
Smith shows that early American literatures reveal Black