Shadow That Lingers - What Slavery Teaches Us About Freedom

Cooper shows how the reaction to slavery unveiled the characteristics of freedom and established the foundation for the human rights movement. The book demonstrates how the legacy of slavery continues to shape individual identity as well as the nature of state power to exercise discipline and control over its citizens.

List of contents

Chapter One: The Authoritarian Imagination
Chapter Two: The Cybernetics of Enslavement
Chapter Three: Slavery and Reactance
Chapter Four: The Legal Architecture of Freedom
Chapter Five: White Reactance Following Emancipation
Chapter Six: Carcerality and Freedom of Movement
Chapter Seven: Anomalies in the Ideologies of Domination
Conclusion: Freedom as the Process of Becoming Human

About the author

By Allan D Cooper

Product details

• Authors: Allan D Cooper, Allan D. Cooper
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781666929249
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-924-9
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Ideologies, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Civil rights & citizenship, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Human rights, civil rights, Political ideologies and movements, Slavery and abolition of slavery