Talking to Strangers Talking to Strangers Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education  .          S Danielle Allen is professor in the Department of Classical Languages and Literatures, the Department ofPolitical Science, and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Author of The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens,Allen received a MacArthur Fellowship in and directs the Civic Knowledge Project. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago  The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published  Printed in the United States of America   :---(cloth) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Allen, Danielle S., 1971– Talking to strangers :citizenship after Brown v. Board of Education / Danielle S. Allen. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. :---(cloth :alk. paper) . Political participation—United States. . Pluralism (Social sciences)—United States. . Civil society—United States. . Trust— United States. . Intergroup relations—United States. . United States— Race relations. I. Title:Citizenship after Brown v. Board of Education. II.Title. .  .'—dc  oThe paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials,  .-. I wrote this book in memory of Ralph Waldo Ellison— may his spirit endure— and dedicate it now to my husband, Robert von Hallberg.   is not likely to become free of racism, thus it is necessary for Negroes to free themselves by becoming their idea of what a free people should be. S  , Working notes to Juneteenth Contents Key to Brief Citations xi Prologue xiii  :  :Little Rock, a New Beginning  :Old Myths and New Epiphanies  :Sacrifice, a Democratic Fact  :Sacrifice and Citizenship   :      :Imperfect Democracy  :Imperfect People  :Imperfect Pearls/Imperfect Ideals   :    :Beyond Invisible Citizens  :Brotherhood, Love, and Political Friendship  :Rhetoric, a Good Thing  :Epilogue  Acknowledgments  Notes  Index 