Imperium In Imperio: A Study Of The Negro Race

Griggs, Sutton E.

ISBN 10: 1617430269 / ISBN 13: 9781617430268

Verlag: Greenbook Publications, LLC, 2010

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1617430269-3-35354656

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Sutton Elbert Griggs (June 19, 1872 - January 2, 1933) is best known for his novel Imperium in Imperio, a utopian work that imagines that within the United States there is a separate African American state. This work centers on the disclosure of an African American "empire within an empire," a shadow government complete with a Congress based in Waco, Texas. The two main characters are childhood friends separated by wealth, education, skin tone, and political outlook; one is a militant and one an integrationist. The light-skinned and more militant Bernard Belgrave has been hand-picked to serve as president and advocates a takeover of the Texas state government, while the dark-skinned, college-educated Belton Piedmont argues for assimilation and cooperation. Bernard has Belton executed as a traitor, leaving the potentially violent and unstable Bernard in control of the Imperium as the novel ends.

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Titel: Imperium In Imperio: A Study Of The Negro ...
Verlag: Greenbook Publications, LLC
Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Good