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

by Anita Haya Patterson

Book Overview

This book traces a provocative line from Emerson's work on race, reform, and identity to work by three influential African- American thinkers--W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., and Cornel West--each of whom offers subtle engagement with both the tradition of written protest and the critique of liberalism Emerson shaped. Emerson has been cast in recent debate as either an antinomian or an ideologue--as either subversive of institutional controls...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195109155
• ISBN13: 9780195109153
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.9" x 1.0" x 5.2"