The Struggle for the People’s King : : How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement /

The Struggle for the People’s King : : How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement / / Hajar Yazdiha.

How the misuses of Martin Luther King’s legacy divide us and undermine democracyIn the post–civil rights era, wide-ranging groups have made civil rights claims that echo those made by Black civil rights activists of the 1960s, from people with disabilities to women’s rights activists and LGBTQ coali...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
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Yazdiha, Hajar,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (286 p.) :; 23 b/w illus. 4 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • The struggle for the people’s king
  • Introduction
  • 1 Making Collective Memory: The Contentious Politics of Commemorating King
  • 2 Mobilizing Collective Memory: The Gnarled Branches of Civil Rights Memory in Contentious Politics
  • 3 “Dr. King Would Be Outraged!” LGBTQ and Family Values Activists’ Contests Over the Moral Boundaries of Memory
  • 4 “This Is the Beginning of Us Taking Back America”: Immigrant Rights Activists’ and Nativists’ Contests Over the National Boundaries of Memory
  • 5 “Muslims Are the New Blacks”: Muslim Activists, the Islamophobia Movement, and the Racial Boundaries of Memory
  • 6 #MeToo, Black Feminism, and the Queenmakers: Restoring the Intersectional Legacies of the Civil Rights Movement
  • Conclusion
  • Methodological Appendix
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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