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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-
Contributor:
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
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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