“Make the Separation Physical”: (De)legitimizing Black Separatism in Sutton E. Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio

The 1890s have often been described as perhaps the low point of the United States’ race relations. Sutton E. Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio (1899) imagines a complex solution to this racial nadir, a proto-Black Nationalist plot that would create an “empire within an empire.” The title of Griggs’s text...

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Main Author: Naughton Gerald David
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2025-06-01
Series:American, British and Canadian Studies Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/abcsj-2025-0006
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