ISBN:
9780190936853
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
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Illustrations.
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
DDC:
305.38896073
Abstract:
Before Harriet Tubman or Martin Luther King, Jr. were identified with Moses, African Americans linked those who challenged racial oppression in America with Samson. In Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon, Nyasha Junior and Jeremy Schipper investigate legal documents, narratives by enslaved persons, speeches, sermons, periodicals, poetry, fiction, and visual arts to tell the unlikely story of how a flawed biblical hero became an iconic figure in America's racial history. Along the way, Schipper and Junior engage the work of African American luminaries, including Fredrick Douglass, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton, and many others. From stories of slave rebellions to the Black Power movement, invoking the biblical character of Samson became a powerful way for African Americans to voice strategies and opinions about many race-related issues.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2020
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780190689780.001.0001
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190689780.001.0001
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