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Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic Hardcover – October 25, 2023

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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. 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. 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. Smith shows that early American literatures reveal Black communities engaging with issues of respectability from the very beginning of the transatlantic slave trade. Concerns about character and comportment influenced the literary production of Black Atlantic communities, particularly in the long eighteenth century. Uncovering the central importance of respectability as a theme shaping the literary development of cultures throughout the early Black Atlantic, Smith illuminates the mechanics of respectability politics in a range of texts, including poetry, letters, and life writing by Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, and expatriates on the west coast of Africa in Sierra Leone.

Through these early Black texts, Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic considers respectability politics as a malleable strategy that has both energized and suppressed Black cultures for centuries.

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  1. Print length
    240 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    LSU Press
  4. Publication date
    October 25, 2023
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.69 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0807179795
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0807179796
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“This is the book that students and teachers have been waiting for, a book that will enable lay readers and experts alike to draw a clearer and more nuanced throughline from the arrival of enslaved Africans in 1619 to the state-sanctioned killings of Black Americans in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.” -- Zachary McLeod Hutchins, author of Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative

“Cassander L. Smith gifts us an erudite, powerful, and refreshing analysis of racialized Blackness and the sociocultural matrix of respectability politics negotiated by Black people across the early African diaspora. Interdisciplinary in scope and meticulously researched, with trailblazing links to our present political climate, Smith’s arresting and incomparable work takes us on a tantalizing journey into the world of early African American and early African diasporic cultural and literary production. This book is a game changer!” -- Nicholas R. Jones, author of Staging Habla de Negros: Radical Performances of the African Diaspora in Early Modern Spain

“Cassander L. Smith makes a powerful argument that Black writers, starting approximately in 1600, used letters sent throughout the Atlantic world as platforms to construct the first ‘respectability politics,’ a strategy usually associated with writers working in the nineteenth century. Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic suggests that epistolary accomplishments belong in the early African American canon on equal footing with more widely studied literary forms such as folktales and autobiographies.” -- John Saillant, author of Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753–1833

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Cassander L. Smith is associate professor of English and associate dean for academic affairs of the Honors College at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. She is the author of Black Africans in the British Imagination: English Narratives of the Early Atlantic World and the coeditor of several books, including The Earliest African American Literatures: A Critical Reader.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ LSU Press (October 25, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0807179795
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807179796
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.69 x 9 inches

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Cassander (Cassie) Smith is an associate professor of English at the University of Alabama. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in early African American, American, and Caribbean literature. Both her teaching and research focus on representations of black Africans in early Atlantic literature, emphasizing the racial/cultural ideologies that helped shape English encounters with the early Americas and helped shape the literature produced about those encounters.

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