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Fifty years since MLK / edited by Brandon M. Terry ; with Barbara Ransby, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Bernard E. Harcourt.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Forum (Cambridge, Mass.) ; 5.
- Forum ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race relations--Segregation--United States--History.
- Race relations.
- African Americans--Civil Rights Movement--20th century.
- African Americans.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Influence.
- King, Martin Luther.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (121 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Boston Review, [2017]
- Summary:
- April 4, 2018, marked the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death. This collection grapples with his enduring legacy. Though he is widely celebrated as a national hero-martyr to an inspiring dream about our country's largest possibilities-many younger Americans now greet his name with suspicion, viewing him as an essentially conservative figure. These essays offer critical engagement in place of canonization, recovering-and scrutinizing-the profoundly radical nature of King's political, moral, and religious thought.
- Contents:
- Editor's note / Deborah Chasman & Joshua Cohen
- MLK now / Brandon M. Terry
- King in context / Barbara Ransby
- The pivot to class / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Diagnosing racial capitalism / Andrew Douglas
- A national problem / Jeanne Theoharis
- On violence and nonviolence / Elizabeth Hinton
- Sparking King's revolution / Bernard E. Harcourt
- A revolution in values / Brandon M. Terry
- Baldwin's lonely country / Ed Pavlić
- Against national security citizenship / Aziz Rana
- 1968 and the crisis of liberalism / Samuel Moyn
- Exceptional victims / Christian G. Appy
- The almost inevitable failure of justice / Thad Williamson.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBook Central, viewed August 14 , 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9781946511133
- 1946511137
- 9781946511140
- 1946511145
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