50 Years Since MLK

50 Years Since MLK

by Brandon Terry, et al
50 Years Since MLK

50 Years Since MLK

by Brandon Terry, et al

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Overview

April 4, 2018, marked the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s death. This collection grapples with his enduring legacy. Though he is widely celebrated as a national hero—martyr to an inspiring dream about our country’s largest possibilities—many younger Americans now greet his name with suspicion, viewing him as an essentially conservative figure. These essays offer critical engagement in place of canonization, recovering—and scrutinizing—the profoundly radical nature of King’s political, moral, and religious thought.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781946511065
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publication date: 02/02/2018
Series: Boston Review / Forum , #5
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 6.60(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Brandon Terry is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Social Studies at Harvard University.

Joshua Cohen is Coeditor-in-Chief of Boston Review, member of the faculty of Apple University, and Distinguished Senior Fellow in Law, Philosophy, and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Brandon Terry is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Social Studies at Harvard University.

Brandon Terry is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and Social Studies at Harvard University.

Ed Pavlić is the author of Live at the Bitter End; Who Can Afford to Improvise? James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the ListenerLet's Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno; and other books. He is Distinguished Research Professor in the English Department and in the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Georgia.

Table of Contents

Editors' Note Deborah Chasman Joshua Cohen 7

Forum

MLK Now Brandon M. Terry 9

Forum Responses

King in Context Barbara Ransby 31

The Pivot to Class Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 36

Diagnosing Racial Capitalism Andrew Douglas 40

A National Problem Jeanne Theoharis 45

On Violence and Nonviolence Elizabeth Hinton 49

Sparking King's Revolution Bernard E. Harcourt 53

A Revolution in Values Brandon M. Terry 58

Essays

Baldwin's Lonely Country Ed Pavlic 67

Against National Security Citizenship Azix Rana 81

1968 and the Crisis of Liberalism Samule Moyn 92

Exceptional Victims Christian G. Appy 102

The Almost Inevitable Failure of Justice Thad Williamson 112

Contributors 125

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