April 4, 1968 : Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death and how it changed America / Michael Eric Dyson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Basic Civitas Books, Description: xii, 290 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780465002122
  • 0465002129
  • 9780465012862
  • 0465012868
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: April 4, 1968.DDC classification:
  • 323.092 22
  • 323.1196073092
LOC classification:
  • E185.97.K5 D963 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface -- Part 1. Moses: A Prophet's Death in Three Acts: -- Act 1: Fighting Death -- Act 2: Talking Death -- Act 3: Facing Death -- Part 2. Promised Land, or Wilderness? -- Report Card on Black America -- Black Family and Black Inequality -- What Would Martin Do? Poverty, Prosperity, and Performance of Blackness -- Part 3. Joshua: Charismatic Black Leadership in a Prophet's Shadow: A Messiah Measures Leadership -- Heir Apparent -- Last of a Dying Breed? -- Black Kennedy -- Afterword: Interview with Dr. King on His 80th Birthday -- Index.
Summary: A cultural critic reassesses the late civil rights leader's significance and influence on American society, as well as the ways in which his death transformed the discussion of race in America.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-282) and index.

A cultural critic reassesses the late civil rights leader's significance and influence on American society, as well as the ways in which his death transformed the discussion of race in America.

Preface -- Part 1. Moses: A Prophet's Death in Three Acts: -- Act 1: Fighting Death -- Act 2: Talking Death -- Act 3: Facing Death -- Part 2. Promised Land, or Wilderness? -- Report Card on Black America -- Black Family and Black Inequality -- What Would Martin Do? Poverty, Prosperity, and Performance of Blackness -- Part 3. Joshua: Charismatic Black Leadership in a Prophet's Shadow: A Messiah Measures Leadership -- Heir Apparent -- Last of a Dying Breed? -- Black Kennedy -- Afterword: Interview with Dr. King on His 80th Birthday -- Index.

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