Rev. ed. of: The Afro-American jeremiad. 1990. Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-267) and index.
Contents:
Conclusion : the enduring black jeremiad. The brief life of Douglass's "new nation" : from emancipation-reconstruction to returning declension, 1861-1895 -- The jeremiad in the age of Booker T. Washington : Washington versus Ida B. Wells, 1895-1915 -- Great expectations : W.E.B. Du Bois's American jeremiad in the progressive era -- Mary McLeod Bethune and W.E.B. Du Bois : rising and waning hopes for America at midcentury -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and America's promise in the second reconstruction, 1955-1965 -- Malcolm X : Jeremiah to blacks, damner of whites - to the end? -- King's radical jeremiad, 1965-1968 : America as the "sick society" -- Conclusion : the enduring black jeremiad.
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