Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship” – Chicago Review of Books

Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] For Hawa Allan, history is a recurring nightmare. “Does this sound dramatic?” she asks in the beginning of her book Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship. “I don’t care, because it’s true.”  Allan is a lawyer, but also a writer of fiction and poetry. She is a lecturer at … Read more