Book Review: The three mothers: How the mothers of Martin Luther king, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Affilia ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 088610992110255
Author(s):  
Victoria Ashley Copeland
Keyword(s):  
Martin Luther ◽  
James Baldwin ◽  
Malcolm X ◽  
Martin Luther King

scholarly journals Espectros de Baldwin

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-46
Author(s):  
Jânderson Albino Coswosk ◽  
Maria Aparecida Andrade Salgueiro
Keyword(s):  
Martin Luther ◽  
James Baldwin ◽  
Malcolm X ◽  
Raoul Peck ◽  
Martin Luther King

O artigo explora a potência crítica e narrativa do documentário I Am Not Your Negro (2016), do diretor haitiano Raoul Peck (1953-), resultante de uma pesquisa intensa do diretor nos arquivos pessoais do escritor e ensaísta afro-americano James Baldwin (1924-1987). Apontaremos de que modo Baldwin, através da manipulação imagética e textual proposta por Peck, ressuscita questões graves da história das tensões raciais nos Estados Unidos, que dividiram o país antes e após o início dos anos 1970, ou ainda, após a luta pelos direitos civis e a morte de seus três grandes amigos: Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers e Malcolm X. Evidenciaremos como o documentário expõe um pano de fundo do passado que se confunde com imagens, narrativas, corpos e nomes do presente, ao destacar a importância das reflexões de Baldwin para a luta contra o racismo e a violência ainda impostos à população negra estadunidense na contemporaneidade.

scholarly journals The Warrior and the Poet

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-121
Author(s):  
Nicholas Binford
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
James Baldwin ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Malcolm X ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Martin Luther King

Artists, scholars, and popular media often describe James Baldwin as revolutionary, either for his written work or for his role in the civil rights movement. But what does it mean to be revolutionary? This article contends that thoughtlessly calling James Baldwin revolutionary obscures and erases the non-revolutionary strategies and approaches he employed in his contributions to the civil rights movement and to race relations as a whole. Frequent use of revolutionary as a synonym for “great” or “important” creates an association suggesting that all good things must be revolutionary, and that anything not revolutionary is insufficient, effectively erasing an entire spectrum of social and political engagement from view. Baldwin’s increasing relevance to our contemporary moment suggests that his non-revolutionary tactics are just as important as the revolutionary approaches employed by civil rights leaders such as Malcolm X or Martin Luther King, Jr.

Theorizing White Racial Trauma and its Remedies

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Becky Thompson ◽  
Veronica T. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
James Baldwin ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Racial Trauma ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Contemporary Work ◽  
White Consciousness ◽  
Martin Luther King

In this paper we will be drawing upon historical work on race consciousness, contemporary work on trauma, and scholarship on activism and social change to offer a vision of what a critical white double consciousness might look like. We juxtapose this critical white consciousness with what Veronica Watson has termed a “white schizophrenic subjectivity” which has been explored by intellectuals like Du Bois, Charles Chesnutt, James Baldwin and Martin Luther King Jr. Each of these writers called attention to a whiteness that works to maintain disconnection from people of color and disassociation from their own moral selves, a white schizophrenic subjectivity that prevented white folks from acknowledging or challenging racism while still continuing to think of themselves as moral and upstanding citizens of their communities and nation.

Does the Movement Need a King?

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 465-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER J. LING
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Malcolm X ◽  
Henry Louis Gates ◽  
Cornel West ◽  
Martin Luther King

Not every book sent for review comes with two pages of endorsements from the great and the good. Stokely is accompanied by glowing approval from such familiar names as Henry Louis Gates, Cornel West, Robin D. G. Kelley, Michael Eric Dyson, Gerald Horne, Charles Oglethorpe, and David Levering Lewis. Even without the para-textual apparatus to guide one's judgement, however, there is enough in this biography of Stokely Carmichael for any scholar of the civil rights movement to relish. This may not be the “definitive biography” that John Stauffer declares it to be, but it is indisputably important. In essence, Joseph argues that Stokely is the missing panel in a triptych of heroes, flanked on either side by the already canonized Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. In key respects, he insists, Stokely was the synthesis of Malcolm and Martin.

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