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The struggle for the people's King : how politics transforms the memory of the civil rights movement / Hajar Yazdiha.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yazdiha, Hajar, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Influence.
- King, Martin Luther.
- African American civil rights workers--Influence.
- African American civil rights workers.
- African American clergy--Influence.
- African American clergy.
- Civil rights movements--United States.
- Civil rights movements.
- Civil rights movements--Political aspects--United States.
- Collective memory--Political aspects--United States.
- Collective memory.
- Right and left (Political science)--United States.
- Right and left (Political science).
- United States--Race relations--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 265 pages) : illustrations, map.
- Other Title:
- How politics transforms the memory of the civil rights movement
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023]
- Contents:
- Making collective memory: the contentious politics of commemorating King
- Mobilizing collective memory: the gnarled branches of civil rights memory in contentious politics
- "Dr. King would be outraged!" LGBTQ and family values activists' contests over the moral boundaries of memory
- "This is the beginning of us taking back America": immigrant rights activists' and nativists' contests over the national boundaries of memory
- "Muslims are the new Blacks": Muslim activists, the Islamophobia movement, and the racial boundaries of memory
- #MeToo, Black feminism, the Queenmakers: restoring the intersectional legacies of the Civil Rights Movement
- Conclusion
- Methodological appendix.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-248) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780691246086 (electronic bk.)
- 0691246084 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 90102144272
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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