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



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Autore: Howard-Pitney David Visualizza persona
Titolo: The African American jeremiad [[electronic resource] ] : appeals for justice in America / / David Howard-Pitney Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2005
Edizione: Rev. and expanded ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
Disciplina: 973/.0496073
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: United States Social conditions
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: Howard-PitneyDavid  
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
Titolo autorizzato: The African American jeremiad  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4399-0368-9
9786612505744
1-282-50574-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910457109703321
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