Dreams and Nightmares - Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Struggle for Black Equality

Informationen zum Autor Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson is professor of transatlantic history and culture at the University of Augsburg. Waldschmidt-Nelson's many books include Inventing the Silent Majority in Western Europe and the United States: Conservatism in the 1960s and 1970s. Klappentext Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X have come to symbolize the two primary strands of black political thought during the civil rights movement. As Henry Louis Gates Jr. points out in his foreword, the parallels and divergences between the two men remain striking. This compares and contrasts these two giants in a fascinating dual biography. In a crisp, fascinating narrative, it reveals the interconnectedness of their goals, their visions, and their legacies. It also suggests what might have been were it not for a pair of assassins' bullets. Zusammenfassung From original German text entitled GegenSpieler (Fischer Verlag! 2001) with parts rewritten for an American audience; large parts of the introduction and the final chapter are completely new--Provided by publisher.

Product details

• Authors: Britta Waldschmidt Nelson, Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson
• Publisher: University Press Of Florida
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2011
• EAN: 9780813037233
• ISBN: 978-0-8130-3723-3
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 225 mm x 20 mm
• Series: New Perspectives on the Histor; New Perspectives on the Histor
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology