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623625
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Patterson, Anita Haya.
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From Emerson to King : : democracy, race, and the politics of protest /\ Anita Haya Patterson.
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1997.
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W.E.B. Dubois Institute
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257 p. :: ill. ;; 25 cm.
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| ISBN
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0195109155 (cloth : acid-free paper)
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: 9780195109153 (cloth : acid-free paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-249) and index.
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| Contents
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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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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 critique of liberalism Emerson shaped.
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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, Anita Haya 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. A work of striking originality and breadth, From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest will make invigorating reading for scholars and students of American Studies, American political philosophy, and African-American Studies.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo,1803-1882-- Influence.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo,1803-1882-- Political and social views.
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African Americans-- Intellectual life.
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Democracy-- United States.
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African Americans-- Civil rights.
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United States, Race relations.
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E185.86.P29 1997
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