Autobiography in the Face of Social Death: Martin Luther King Jr., Sustaining Object/Process, and Radical Hope/Redemption
In this article, Martin Luther King Jr.’s autobiography is deemed to be a sustaining object/process in the midst of the forces of social death. More particularly, it is argued that the process of writing was an act of resistance, anchoring, preserving, and asserting a positive civic or political sel...
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| 格式: | 电子 文件 |
| 语言: | English |
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Springer Science Business Media B. V.
2023
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Pastoral psychology
Year: 2023, 卷: 72, 发布: 2, Pages: 289-303 |
| Further subjects: | B
Autobiography
B Civic care B Civic faith B Martin Luther King Jr B social death B Racism B Sustaining |
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| 总结: | In this article, Martin Luther King Jr.’s autobiography is deemed to be a sustaining object/process in the midst of the forces of social death. More particularly, it is argued that the process of writing was an act of resistance, anchoring, preserving, and asserting a positive civic or political self in the face of what Orlando Patterson called racism’s "social death," which is understood as the systemic attempt to prevent, through forms of humiliation (including varied forms of violence),persons from finding and securing a positive, political-agentic self in society. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-022-01038-8 |