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From Emerson to King : Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest

This work explores Emerson's contribution to the debate on democracy, race and social reform. Emerson's writings, it argues, reveal a pattern of contradiction between fundamental individual rights and race as a factor impossible to dismiss in a consideration of democratic values
eBook, English, 1997
Oxford University Press, New York, 1997
1 online resource (268 pages)
9780195355178, 9781429415668, 0195355172, 1429415665
466425114
Contents; INTRODUCTION: Reconciling Race and Rights; ONE: Defining the Public: Representative Men; TWO: Property and the Body in Nature; THREE: The Poetics of Contradiction: Religious and Political Emblems in "The American Scholar"; FOUR: "Self-Reliance": The Ethical Demand for Reform; FIVE: Locating the Limits of Consent in "Friendship"; SIX: The Claims of Double-Consciousness: Race, Nationalism, and the Problem of Political Obligation; SEVEN: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Critique of Liberal Nationalism. EIGHT: Martin Luther King Jr.: Publicity, Disobedience, and the Revitalization of American Democratic CultureEpilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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