"Black Suffering in Search of the 'Beloved Community': Political Imprisonment and Self-Defense"
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: In remembrance, we would rather recall King’s entry into the world. The birth of any baby – with sustenance and protection from a mother possessing the same – offers promise. A prince of peace born in the winter and murdered in the spring can be immortalized if his life struggles and violent death are viewed as necessary sacrifices for the greater good. King surely knew that Jesus was both a black Jew and a political prisoner. He like so many of his era understood blacks as being political captives occupying a unique position in society, unique but universal to the human condition of struggle for liberation.
Author: Joy James
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2156326140