From Emerson to King : democracy, race, and the politics of protest /

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This book traces a provocative line from Emerson's work on race, reform, and identity to work by three influential African-American thinkers - W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Cornel West - each of whom offers subtle engagement with both the tradition of written protest and the crit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Patterson, Anita Haya
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Colección:W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Series)
Temas:
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882 > Influence.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882 > Political and social views.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
Democracy > United States.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle.
Noirs américains > Droits.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Democracy.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Political and social views.
Race relations.
United States > Race relations.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Reconciling Race and Rights
  • 1. Defining the Public: Representative Men
  • 2. Property and the Body in Nature
  • 3. The Poetics of Contradiction: Religious and Political Emblems in "The American Scholar"
  • 4. "Self-Reliance": The Ethical Demand for Reform
  • 5. Locating the Limits of Consent in "Friendship"
  • 6. The Claims of Double-Consciousness: Race, Nationalism, and the Problem of Political Obligation
  • 7. W.E.B. Du Bois and the Critique of Liberal Nationalism
  • 8. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Publicity, Disobedience, and the Revitalization of American Democratic Culture.

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