From Emerson to King: Democracy, Race, and the Politics of Protest (The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series)

by Anita Haya Patterson (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1997

  $262.36

  This work explores Emerson's contribution to the debate on democracy, race and social reform. Emerson's writings, it argues, reveal a pattern of contradiction between fundamental individual rights and race as a factor impossible to dismiss in a consideration of democratic values.