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15%OFFJonathan Rieder - The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr. - 9780674046986 - V9780674046986
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The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Description for The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Paperback. Tells the story about the tangle of race, talk, and identity in the life of Martin Luther King Jr. This title delves into the intricacies of his sermons, speeches, storytelling, exhortations, jokes, jeremiads, taunts, repartee, eulogies, confessions, lamentation, and gallows humor. It explores his performances. Num Pages: 408 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGH; CFG; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL3; JPH; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 146 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
“You don’t know me,” Martin Luther King, Jr., once declared to those who criticized his denunciation of the Vietnam War, who wanted to confine him to the ghetto of “black” issues. Now, forty years after being felled by an assassin’s bullet, it is still difficult to take the measure of the man: apostle of peace or angry prophet; sublime exponent of a beloved community or fiery Moses leading his people up from bondage; black preacher or translator of blackness to the white world? This book explores the extraordinary performances through which King played with all of these possibilities, and others ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674046986
SKU
V9780674046986
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About Jonathan Rieder
Jonathan Rieder is Professor of Sociology at Barnard College, Columbia University.

Reviews for The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr.
A marvelous book, really special, and quite different from even the best of the King books. Jonathan Rieder demonstrates that King exemplified postethnic ideals, refusing to abandon either the distinctive solidarity of black people or the mutual support that human beings could offer one another across the lines of color and faith.
David Hollinger, author of Postethnic America Jonathan ... Read more

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