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The Colors of Double Exceptionalism – The Founders and African America
Author(s) -
Lopez Robert Oscar
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2007.00514.x
Subject(s) - american exceptionalism , exceptionalism , african american , george (robot) , history , art , psychology , law , art history , political science , ethnology , politics
This essay examines American exceptionalism and the African American response to it, from Phillis Wheatley to W. E. B. Du Bois. The author argues that African Americans formed a double exceptionalism that is most clearly evident in the way that they remember and revise the legacies of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.