Cascade Books
The Domestication of Martin Luther King Jr.
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9781610979542
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9781610979542
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The Domestication of Martin Luther King Jr.
$37.00
$33.55
Sale 9%
Clarence B. Jones, close King advisor and draft speechwriter, has done much to reinforce a conservative hijacking of King's image with the publication of his controversial books What Would Martin Say? (2008) and Behind the Dream (2011). King emerges from Jones's books not as a prophetic radical who attacked systemic racial injustice, economic exploitation, and wars of aggression, but as a fiercely conservative figure who would oppose affirmative action and illegal immigration. The Domestication of Martin Luther King Jr. offers a critique of Jones's work and the larger effort on the part of right-wing conservatives to make King a useful symbol, or the sacred aura, in a protracted campaign to promote their own agenda for America. This work establishes the need to rethink King's legacy of ideas and activism and its importance for our society and culture.
| Author: Lewis V. Baldwin |
| Publisher: Cascade Books |
| Publication Date: Jul 03, 2013 |
| Number of Pages: 300 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1610979540 |
| ISBN-13: 9781610979542 |