Of Men and [Mountain]Tops: Black Women, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Ethics and Aesthetics of Invisibility in the Movement for Black Lives

This essay asserts freedom as the essence of the prophetic Black Christian tradition that propelled the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strikes, and largely guided the moral compass of the late-twentieth-century Civil Rights Movement. Sexism, however, is a moral paradox that emerges at the interstices of th...

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Main Author: Turman, Eboni Marshall (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Philosophy Documentation Center [2019]
In: Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 39, Issue: 1, Pages: 57-73
IxTheo Classification:FD Contextual theology
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBQ North America
NBE Anthropology
NCC Social ethics
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Summary:This essay asserts freedom as the essence of the prophetic Black Christian tradition that propelled the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strikes, and largely guided the moral compass of the late-twentieth-century Civil Rights Movement. Sexism, however, is a moral paradox that emerges at the interstices of the prophetic Black Church's institutional espousal of freedom and its consistently conflicting practices of gender discrimination that bind Black women to politics of silence and invisibility. An exploration of the iconic "I AM a Man" placards worn by strikers during Martin Luther King Jr.'s final campaign in Memphis alongside a contemporary icon of the Black Lives Matter movement illumines how black women continue to be challenged by intracommunal invisibility, even as they are consistently the progenitors, mobilizers, sustainers, and intellectual architects of Black movements for social change.
ISSN:2326-2176
Contains:Enthalten in: Society of Christian Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics