Description: Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms : Social and Literary Manipulations of a Religious Myth, Paperback by Moses, Wilson Jeremiah, ISBN 0271009330, ISBN-13 9780271009339, Brand New, Free shipping in the US &;Martin Luther King is dead and the millenarian integrationalism that he symbolized sleeps with him,&; but messianic Christian rhetoric still characterizes black oratory both from the pulpit and on the hustings. Dead, too, are the chief American prophets of Pan-Islam, but the Ethiopian Hebrews and Moorish Science Temple are still active. &;As black messianic myths die out,&; this book argues, &;new ones spring up to take their places.&; Dr. Moses views black messianism as &;a powerful and, in many respects, a beautiful myth, permeating the thinking of both white and black Americans since the late 18th century.&; But, he points out, black messianism was evident as early as 1788 in the writings of &;Othello,&; or 1791, when Benjamin Banneker wrote to Thomas Jefferson of the Negro&;s divine right to share the new nation&;s &;peculiar blessing of the heaven.&; The author carefully defines the concept of messianism, and considers &;redemptive mission&; as a key attribute of the conception&;one with which Harriet Beecher Stowe endowed Uncle Tom (despite activists&; mistaken notion of him as servile). The mythic black hero as messiah is a pervasive theme in literary and social expressions as disparate as the writings of Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, . Dubois, and Ralph Ellison, and the cults that developed around Joe Louis, Malcolm X, and others. Following the methodology used by Henry Nash Smith in Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth, Dr. Moses presents a &;new angle of vision on many of the issues of black messianism and on the leading figures in the movement.&; The author concludes that&;despite the frequent excesses and even absurdities of black messianism&;the American traditions of &;evangelical reform, perfectionism, and the social gospel&; offer more promise than today&;s widespread &;narcissistic anarchism.&; Reviewers commented that &;[Dr. Moses&;] analysis is as probing as anything &; and that th &;will stir controversy as well as praise by other scholars in the field.&;
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Book Title: Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms : Social and Literary Manipulations
Number of Pages: 294 Pages
Publication Name: Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms : Social and Literary Manipulations of a Religious Myth
Language: English
Publisher: Pennsylvania STATE University Press
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Discrimination & Race Relations, United States / 19th Century, Black Studies (Global), General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year: 1993
Features: Revised
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.5 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Wilson J. Moses
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science, History
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
