Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms: Social and Literary Manipulations of a Religious Myth. Revised Edition

by Wilson Jeremiah Moses

Book Overview

"Martin Luther King is dead and the millenarian integrationalism that he symbolized sleeps with him," but messianic Christian rhetoric still characterizes black oratory both from the pulpit and on the hustings. Dead, too, are the chief American prophets of Pan-Islam, but the Ethiopian Hebrews and Moorish Science Temple are still active. "As black messianic myths die out," this book argues, "new ones spring up to take their places." Dr. Moses views...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271002948
• ISBN13: 9780271002941
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"