Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership

Erica R. Edwards

Original title: Black charisma

earliest edition we have, 2012 University of Minnesota Press, 2012 249 pages

Difference incorporated

"Social and political change is impossible in the absence of gifted male charismatic leadership--this is the fiction that shaped African American culture throughout the twentieth century. If we understand this, Erica R. Edwards tells us, we will better appreciate the dramatic variations within both the modern black freedom struggle and the black literary tradition. By considering leaders such as Marcus Garvey, Martin...

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Black charisma edition · 2012 · University of Minnesota Press · 249 pages · 9780816675456
Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership edition · 2012 · University of Minnesota Press · 9781299945494
Difference Incorporated edition · 2012 · University of Minnesota Press · 9780816680221

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