@article{1438374,
      recid = {1438374},
      author = {Peterson, Charles},
      title = {Beyond civil disobedience : social nullification and black  citizenship /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Cham, Switzerland :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      year = {2021},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {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 states 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. Charles F. Peterson is an Associate  Professor of Africana Studies at Oberlin College, USA. Dr.  Peterson writes on Africana political theory and  aesthetics, and is a co-editor of Sons of Lovers: An  Anthology of Poetry by Black Men (2000) and De-Colonizing  the Academy (2003), and author of DuBois, Fanon and Cabral:  The Margins of Anti-Colonial Leadership (2007). He lives in  Oberlin, OH where he has served as a five-term City  Councilperson.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1438374},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77554-4},
}