Talking to Strangers Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown V. Board of Education

Name: Talking to Strangers Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown V. Board of Education
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ISBN: 9780226014678

ISBN-10: 0226014673

ISBN-13: 9780226014678

Edition: 2006

Authors: Danielle Allen

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"Don't talk to strangers" is the advice long given to children by parents of all classes and races. Today it has blossomed into a fundamental precept of civic education, reflecting interracial distrust, personal and political alienation, and a profound suspicion of others. In this powerful and eloquent essay, Danielle Allen, a 2002 MacArthur Fellow, takes this maxim back to Little Rock, rooting out the seeds of distrust to replace them with "a citizenship of political friendship."Returning to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954 and to the famous photograph of Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, being cursed by fellow "citizen" Hazel Bryan, Allen argues that…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 286
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Key to Brief Citations


Prologue



Loss



Little Rock, a New Beginning



Old Myths and New Epiphanies



Sacrifice, a Democratic Fact



Sacrifice and Citizenship



Why We Have Bad Habits



Imperfect Democracy



Imperfect People



Imperfect Pearls/Imperfect Ideals



New Democratic Vistas



Beyond Invisible Citizens



Brotherhood, Love, and Political Friendship



Rhetoric, a Good Thing


Epilogue: Powerful Citizens


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index