Con/Tradition
Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, the Million Man March, and American Civil Religion
by Frank Kelleter
Paperback (Published)
(January 2000)
ISBN: 9783825310493
5.28 x 8.27 inches
Price: $25.00
In stock
Discussing the Million Man March of October 16, 1995 as a turning point in the history of African American protest, this volume offers five interpretive contexts to demarcate its cultural location: The March is analyzed as a struggle within the African American political establishment (1), as an attempt at unified black action against a new politics of white resentment (2), and as the Nation of Islam’s (NOI) most visible self-dramatization since its founding in the 1930s (3). Relying on these themes, a rhetorical analysis of Louis Farrakhan’s speech at the March uncovers the NOI’s uneasy yet intimate relationship with the rituals of American civil religion (4). Finally, Con/Tradition addresses Farrakhan’s influence on black HipHop culture and academic Afrocentrism (5).
- By (author) Frank Kelleter
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