The African American jeremiad : appeals for justice in America / David Howard-Pitney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howard-Pitney, David.

Contributor:

Howard-Pitney, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History.

African Americans.

African American messianism--History.

African American messianism.

Social reformers--United States--History.

Social reformers.

Political messianism--United States--History.

Political messianism.

Civil religion--United States--History.

Civil religion.

Jeremiads--United States.

Jeremiads.

United States--Social conditions.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

Rev. and expanded ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Begun by Puritans, the American jeremiad, a rhetoric that expresses indignation and urges social change, has produced passionate and persuasive essays and speeches throughout the nation's history. Showing that black leaders have employed this verbal tradition of protest and social prophecy in a way that is specifically African American, David Howard-Pitney examines the jeremiads of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. DuBois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X, as well as more contemporary figures such as Jesse Jackson and Alan Keyes. This rev

Contents:

Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Civil Religion and the Anglo- and African American Jeremiads; 1. Frederick Douglass's Antebellum Jeremiad against Slavery and Racism; 2. The Brief Life of Douglass's "New Nation": From Emancipation-Reconstruction to Returning Declension, 1861-1895; 3. The Jeremiad in the Age of Booker T.Washington: Washington versus Ida B. Wells, 1895-1915; 4. Great Expectations: W. E. B. Du Bois's American Jeremiad in the Progressive Era; 5. Mary McLeod Bethune and W. E. B. Du Bois: Rising and Waning Hopes for America at Midcentury

6. Martin Luther King, Jr., and America's Promise in the Second Reconstruction, 1955-19657. Malcolm X: Jeremiah to Blacks, Damner of Whites-to the End?; 8. King's Radical Jeremiad, 1965-1968: America as the "Sick Society"; Conclusion: The Enduring Black Jeremiad; Notes; Index

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: The Afro-American jeremiad. 1990.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-267 ) and index.

Related Work:

Howard-Pitney, David. Afro-American jeremiad.

ISBN:

9786612505744

9781439903681

1439903689

9781282505742

1282505742

OCLC:

780717297