Sites of SlaveryMore than forty years after the major victories of the civil rights movement, African Americans have a vexed relation to the civic myth of the United States as the land of equal opportunity and justice for all. In Sites of Slavery Salamishah Tillet examines how contemporary African American artists and intellectualsincluding Annette Gordon Reed, Barbara Chase Riboud, Bill T. Jones, Carrie Mae Weems, and Kara Walkerturn to the subject of slavery in