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Critical Insights: Civil Rights Literature

Table of Contents




Dedication




About This Volume




“Caught in an Inescapable Network of Mutuality”: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Orientation in American Civil Rights Literature




Free Speech and Racial Rhetoric: African-American Writers on Race in the United States




Inadequate Conception of Human Complexity: Ellison Revises Elkins




“Be Loyal to Yourselves”: Jim Crow Segregation, Black Cultural Nationalism, and US Cultural Memory in Ossie Davis’ Purlie Victorious




Haunting America: Racial Identity and Otherness in Civic Society




Unpacking Notions of Citizenship through James Baldwin’s Another Country




“On Revolution and Equilibrium”: Barbara Deming’s Secular Nonviolence




“[B]ut yesterday morning came the worst news”: Margaret Walker Alexander’s Prophets for a New Day




The Mothers’ Tragedy: Loss of a Child in the Works of Gwendolyn Brooks, Dudley Randall, and Michael Harper




Alice Walker and Claudia Rankine: Reclaiming the Ocularity of the Self




“Crooning [the] Lullabies [of] Ghosts”: Reclamation and Voices of Witness as Sociopolitical Protest in the Short Fiction of Alice Walker




The City and The Country: Queer Utopian Spaces in John Rechy’s City of Night and Patricia Highsmith’s Price of Salt




“B(l)ack up on the Shelf: The Erasure of Black Queerness in Martin Luther King Jr.’s Why We Can’t Wait




Writing Civil Rights after James Byrd, after Matthew Shepard




“The Process of Becoming Nobody”: Reflections on E. Franklin Frazier’s Black Bourgeoisie: The Rise of a New Middle Class




Toward a More Inclusive America: Jesse Jackson’s 1984 and 1988 Democratic National Convention Addresses




Agency, Activism, and the Black Domestic Worker in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help and Delores Phillips’ The Darkest Child




Staging MLK in the Age of Colorblindness: The Good Negro and The Mountaintop




What Happens When Death Becomes a Poem?: Understanding the Place of Mourning in Civil Rights Literature




Social Media Meets Social Justice: The Role of the Hashtag in the Contemporary Conversation on Race




Chronology of Civil Rights with an Emphasis on Race




Chronology of Civil Rights with an Emphasis on Gender




Chronology of Civil Rights with an Emphasis on Sexual Orientation




Selected Works of Civil Rights Literature




Bibliography




About the Editor




Contributors