Here's that Stanford African-American Freedom Struggle course I referred to several times during the episode by Clayborne Carson. iTunes U link.
It's really an excellent course, with maybe 2 and a half lectures on DuBois covering his (long) life, starting with this one:
Watch the introductory DuBois lecture on youtube.
Carson's lecture on MLK is great; you can see him respond to the plagiarism issue, talk about King's theology, and more. For more King, don't miss the later ones by Vincent Harding and Clarence Jones, who worked directly with King. Other lectures fill the historical gaps between DuBois and MLK, and this course is one of the few (Carson says) that goes up to modern times, with episodes on Tupac and Obama (as he was running in the primary for the 2008 election).
-Mark Linsenmayer
ML, is there any discussion of MLK’s working thru the idea(l)s of Personalism?
I don’t recall that term being raised.
thanks, that’s too bad as MLK was certainly in the mix of that Boston school of thought.
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documentsentry/pilgrimage_to_nonviolence
Oh yeah, dmf–King was deeply influenced by personalism. That served as a foundation for how he theologically argued for non-violence.
It is too bad that many remember his nonviolent approach, but few have taken the time to really study his arguments for said approach. He does some his best ‘conceptual engineering’ when discussing the theory behind the practice of nonviolence.
I’m forgetting what of my recent MLK knowledge comes from which source at this point; I’ll post a couple more sources w/in the next few days.
Law, that’s been my sense of him and I think that many miss how deeply his thought is part of the stream of American philosophy and its commitments to demos not just as a means but as a comprehensive way of life, maybe now what we , after Mead and all, think of as cosmopolitanism.
i’ve listened to lecture one, and some of 2, and am enjoying it.
may i ask your opinion on haile selassie, and the rastafari movement?
I think Selassie was brilliant, but deeply, deeply suspicious of their claim that he is the reincartation of Jesus. However, there are many good people who adhere to that position.
Selassie brilliantly emptied the coffers of his country, when Bob Marley saw up close and personal how Selassie treated his people he reformed his religion with the quickness..
#11 was my favorite
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