From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of ProtestThis 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 critique of liberalism Emerson shaped. Emerson has been cast in recent debate as either an antinomian or an ideologue--as either subversive of institutional controls or indebted to capitalism. Here, Patterson contributes a more nuanced view, probing Emerson's record and its cultural and historical matrix to document a fundamental rhetoric of contradiction--a strategic aligning of opposed political concepts--that enabled him to both affirm and critique elements of the liberal democratic model. Drawing richly on topics in political philosophy, law, religion, and cultural history, Patterson examines the nature and implications of Emerson's contradictory rhetoric in parts I and II. In part III she considers Emerson's legacy from the perspective of African-American intellectual history, identifying fresh continuities and crucial discontinuities between the canonical strain of protest writing Emerson helped establish and African-American literary and philosophical traditions. |
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... KING Democracy , Race , and the Politics of Protest ANITA HAYA PATTERSON From Emerson to King W. E. B. DU BOIS INSTITUTE. Front Cover.
... KING Democracy , Race , and the Politics of Protest ANITA HAYA PATTERSON From Emerson to King W. E. B. DU BOIS INSTITUTE. Front Cover.
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... Series Editor The Open Sore of a Continent A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis Wole Soyinka From Emerson to King Democracy , Race , and the Politics of Protest Anita Haya Patterson From Emerson to King Democracy , Race , and the.
... Series Editor The Open Sore of a Continent A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis Wole Soyinka From Emerson to King Democracy , Race , and the Politics of Protest Anita Haya Patterson From Emerson to King Democracy , Race , and the.
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... Anita Haya Patterson. From Emerson to King Democracy , Race , and the Politics of Protest Anita Haya Patterson New York Oxford • Oxford University Press 1997 Athens Auckland Bangkok Calcutta Cape Town Dar es Salaam Istanbul.
... Anita Haya Patterson. From Emerson to King Democracy , Race , and the Politics of Protest Anita Haya Patterson New York Oxford • Oxford University Press 1997 Athens Auckland Bangkok Calcutta Cape Town Dar es Salaam Istanbul.
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... King : democracy , race , and the politics of P. protest by Anita Haya Patterson . 1 .- ( W . E. B. Dubois Institute ) cm.- Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN - 0-19-510915-5 1. Afro - Americans - Intellectual life . 2 ...
... King : democracy , race , and the politics of P. protest by Anita Haya Patterson . 1 .- ( W . E. B. Dubois Institute ) cm.- Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN - 0-19-510915-5 1. Afro - Americans - Intellectual life . 2 ...
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... King Jr .: Publicity , Disobedience , and the Revitalization of American Democratic Culture Epilogue Notes Index 159 177 198 201 251 From Emerson to King This page intentionally left blank Reconciling X CONTENTS.
... King Jr .: Publicity , Disobedience , and the Revitalization of American Democratic Culture Epilogue Notes Index 159 177 198 201 251 From Emerson to King This page intentionally left blank Reconciling X CONTENTS.
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