Charles Peterson
- Associate Professor of Africana Studies
- Chair of Africana Studies
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Associate Professor Charles Peterson Explores the State of Black Citizenship in New Book
August 11, 2021
Beyond Civil Disobedience: Social Nullification and Black Citizenship (African American Philosophy and the African Diaspora), by Associate Professor of Africana Studies Charles Peterson, was published in July by Palgrave Macmillan. The 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, the book explores the idea of Social Nullification, the decision to reject, revoke and re-define the social contract with a state and society.
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