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PUBLISHED
Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, [2011]
©2011
©2011
DESCRIPTION
xix, 202 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781570759376 (cloth), 1570759375 (cloth), 1570759375 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Nobody knows de trouble I see" : the cross and the lynching tree in the Black experience -- "The terrible beauty of the cross" and the tragedy of the lynching tree : a reflection on Reinhold Niebuhr -- Bearing the cross and staring down the lynching tree : Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle to redeem the soul of America -- The recrucified Christ in Black literary imagination -- "Oh Mary, don't you weep" -- Conclusion : legacies of the cross and the lynching tree