Reclaiming the King of the 1960s: I May Not Get There With You; The True Martin Luther King Jr.

From: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education | Date: July 31, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Reclaiming the King of the 1960s: I May Not Get There With You; The True Martin Luther King Jr.

THIS IS THE ERA of media productions by public intellectuals such as Henry Louis Gates Jr., Cornel West, and Michael Eric Dyson, author of the book here under review. The most meretricious of these works combines race, African-American history, and the African continent itself into a confection that provides little intellectual nourishment. The best of these productions, however, is in the tradition of the African-American essay, grounded in autobiography, the black sermon, and informed occasional ...

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