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Bourgeois Liberty and the Politics of Fear: From Absolutism to Neo-Conservatism

nineteenth and early twentieth century represent a consensus or who believe that black writers meekly addressed American imperialism. The problem, he insists, stems from insufficient examination of primary sources by authors today. The author strains to maintain his thesis in the last chapter. The proand anti-imperialist themes are subsumed in his discussions of murders in novels that tangentially touched empire. Moreover, he does not pull together the strands of his arguments in a concluding chapter. This omission leaves it to the reader to figure out Gruesser’s opinion about the impact of African American critiques of US imperialism on the trajectory of African American life and activism. Despite everything, Empire is especially strong in compelling scholars to consider reframing the thematic chronology of African American life in transition from slavery to freedom to Reconstruction to post-Reconstruction. Much to his credit, Gruesser informs us that the age of American expansion was similarly expansive for African American discourse on human rights beyond the domestic sphere. His treatment of varied literary works convincingly shows that the impressive number of African American materials on American imperialism should improve our understanding of African American literature, history, and the American mission of that era.