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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457109703321

Autore

Howard-Pitney David

Titolo

The African American jeremiad [[electronic resource] ] : appeals for justice in America / / David Howard-Pitney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-4399-0368-9

9786612505744

1-282-50574-2

Edizione

[Rev. and expanded ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Howard-PitneyDavid

Disciplina

973/.0496073

Soggetti

African Americans - History

African American messianism - History

Social reformers - United States - History

Political messianism - United States - History

Civil religion - United States - History

Jeremiads - United States

Electronic books.

United States Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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



Sommario/riassunto

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