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- Title
Reading the “Veil of Black” in Frederick Douglass and Thomas Jefferson: Affective Legibility and National Belonging.
- Authors
Everett, Gabrielle
- Abstract
The article compares and contrasts the writings of U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and social reformer and abolitionist Frederick Douglas. Noted are the writings "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro," by Douglas, "Notes on the State of Virginia," by Jefferson, and "My Bondage and My Freedom," also by Douglas. The article discusses in detail how the United States enforced African American nonbelonging by adhering to Jefferson's assertation of an "immoveable veil of blackness," which suggested that African Americans "were without legible emotions" because blushing was less visible beneath their darker skin tone.
- Subjects
UNITED States; JEFFERSON, Thomas, 1743-1826; DOUGLASS, Frederick, 1818-1895; RACISM; BLUSHING; EMOTIONS; UNITED States history
- Publication
African American Review, 2020, Vol 53, Issue 3, p163
- ISSN
1062-4783
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/afa.2020.0029