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From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest (The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series)
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Patterson offers an exploration of Emerson's contribution to the national debate on democracy, race, and social reform. Emerson's writings, she contests, reveal a consistent pattern of contradiction between fundamental individual rights and race as a factor impossible to dismiss in a consideration of democratic values: ownership, nonconformity, freedom. She traces Emerson's legacy through the writing of African-American intellectuals of succeeding generations: Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #349162 in Books
- Published on: 1997-07-31
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 272 pages
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"This elegant book contributes importantly to ongoing conversations about and in the tradition of Emerson's founding work at that peculiarly American crossing of literature, history, and engaged citizenship."--Kathryne V. Lindberg, Wayne State University
