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Black messiahs and Uncle Toms : social and literary manipulations of a religious myth / Wilson Jeremiah Moses.
LIBRA - Rare E185.625 .M67 1982 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moses, Wilson Jeremiah, 1942-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American messianism.
- African Americans--Race identity.
- African Americans.
- Black nationalism--United States.
- Black nationalism.
- United States.
- African Americans--Religion.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (stamp) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xii pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 278 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park : The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1982.
- Contents:
- The Concept of Messianism, Sacred and Secular
- A Search for African Roots of the Tradition
- The Black Jeremiad and American Messianic Traditions
- The Myth of Uncle Tom and the Messianic Mission of the Black Race
- Faith, Fatalism, and Racial Christianity: The Slavery Crisis and Reconstruction
- Booker T. Washington: A Black Moses and the Covenant Revealed to Him
- The New Negro and America's Changing World Mission
- Marcus Garvey: The Resurrection of the Negro, and the Redemption of Africa
- Du Bois' Dark Princess and the Heroic Uncle Tom
- Waiting for the Messiah: From Joe Louis to Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Chosen Peoples of the Metropolis: Black Muslims, Black Jews, and Others
- Messianic Oratory and the Theme of "Ethiopianism" in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
- Racial Messianism and Political Revivalism in the 1960s
- Black Messianism and American Destiny.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Dolly Carr."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-270) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Banks Collection copy has embossed stamp "JB Library of Joanna Banks".
- Other Format:
- Online version: Moses, Wilson Jeremiah, 1942- Black messiahs and Uncle Toms.
- ISBN:
- 0271002948
- 9780271002941
- OCLC:
- 7577568
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- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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