The Word of the Lord is upon me : the righteous performance of Martin Luther King, Jr. /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rieder, Jonathan
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Artistry of argument
  • pt. I Inside the circle of the tribe. The geometry of belonging ; Brotherhood and "brother"hood ; Backstage and blackstage ; Race men and real men ; The prophetic backstage
  • pt. II Son of a (black) preacher man. Flight from the folk? ; Homilies of black liberation ; Raw and refined
  • pt. III King in the mass meeting. Beloved black community ; The physics of deliverance ; The rationality of defieance ; The courage to be ; Free riders and freedom riders
  • pt. IV Crossing over into beloved community. Artifice and authenticity ; Practicing what you preach ; Validating the movement ; The allure of rudeness ; Black interludes in the crossover moment.