The Afterlife Of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon&Apos S Enduring Impact On America Mark Whitaker Simon Schuster Αγγλικά Βιβλία Social Sciences

Published To Coincide With The Hundredth Anniversary Of His Birth First Major Study Malcolm X’s Influence In Sixty Years Since Assassination Exploring Enduring Impact On Culture Politics And Civil Rights X Has Become As Much An American Icon Abraham Lincoln John F Kennedy Or Martin Luther King But When He Was Murdered 1965 Still Seen A Dangerous Outsider White America Found Him Alienating Mainstream African Americans Divisive Even Admirers Bravely Radical Although Ossie Davis Famously Eulogized “Our Own Black Shining Prince ” Never Received Acceptance Toward Which Seemed Be Striving Final Year It Is More Death Than Life That Malcolm’s Blossomed Come Leave Deep Imprint Cultural Landscape Impeccable Research Original Reporting Mark Whitaker Tells Story Far-Reaching Posthumous Legacy Stretches From Founders Power Movement Such Stokely Carmichael Huey Newton Hip-Hop Pioneers Public Enemy Tupac Shakur Leaders Arts Free Jazz Movements Amiri Baraka Maya Angelou August Wilson Coltrane Credited Their Political Awakening Did Some Most Influential Athletes Our Time Muhammad Ali Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Beyond Spike’s Movie Biopic Lives Matter Reintroduced Subsequent Generations Across Spectrum Been Cited Formative By Both Barack Obama—Who Venerated “Unadorned Insistence Respect”—And Clarence Thomas Who Drawn Messages Self-Improvement Economic Self-Help Compelling New Detail Also Retraces Long Road Exoneration For Two Men Wrongfully Convicted Murder Making Afterlife Essential Reading Anyone Interested True Crime History Σελίδες: 448 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0619 Διαστάσεις: 15 2X15 2Cm