The Domestication of Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Domestication of Martin Luther King Jr.

Clarence B. Jones, Right-Wing Conservatism, and the Manipulation of the King Legacy

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eBook - ePub

The Domestication of Martin Luther King Jr.

Clarence B. Jones, Right-Wing Conservatism, and the Manipulation of the King Legacy

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Cascade Books
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781621897439
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Religion

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Contributors
  3. Foreword
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. General Introduction
  6. Chapter 1: Distorted Characterizations
  7. Chapter 2: Who Is Clarence B. Jones’s Martin Luther King Jr.
  8. Chapter 3: Leading in Challenging Times
  9. Chapter 4: Looking for Martin
  10. Chapter 5: Drum Major for Justice or Dilettante of Dishonesty
  11. Chapter 6: Ruminating about Martin Luther King Jr. and Sex
  12. Chapter 7: Gay Rights and the Misuse of Martin
  13. Chapter 8: What’s Race Got to Do with It?
  14. Chapter 9: Nonviolence and a Moral Universe
  15. Chapter 10: What Martin Might Say about Intracommunity Violence and Homicide among Young African American Males
  16. Chapter 11: Transforming Death
  17. Chapter 12: A Prophet with Honor?