April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.s Death and How It Changed America

April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.s Death and How It Changed America
by Michael Eric Dyson

April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.s Death and How It Changed America
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Author: Michael Eric Dyson
Edition: Music CD
Published: 2008-04-04
ISBN: 1433246163
Number of pages: 5
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc.

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Book Review: King's Death as a Theology
Summary: 3 Stars

Dyson gives us a good work here, although not his best. He should have subtitled the work, "King's Death as a Theology." For he attempts to use King's allusions to death, predictions of his own death, rhetoric of death, and the death of King itself as paradigms for understanding the post-Civil Rights era race pathos in America: Through racial injustice we are killing American society in general, and African Americans in particular, both literally and metaphorically (i.e., killing opportunities for social equality). Throughout the book, Dyson compares King's death to the death of Biblical characters. He overstretches his paradigms in order to act as a social conscience for America's failure at the problem of race. The paradigms become excuses for Dyson to make personal social commentary. There is too much Dyson commentary and not enough analysis and synthesis of King's death and its significance. Most interesting to the book, however, is Dyson's 21st Century dialog with King, a "what would King say if alive today." This section may be the strength of the book as Dyson draws from King's non-violent, prophetic-justice philosophy to make criticism of contemporary social ills. I am not sure everyone will agree with Dyson's conclusions about King's views about civil rights with respect to homosexuals. (A better theology on this subject can be found in Where Are All the Brothers [Redmond.]) However, I would recommend the book as part of a dialog about how far we have come on race in the last 40 years. Dyson shows that we have not come very far. I would read this book in hand with DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk, West's Race Matters and Democracy Matters.

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