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246 30 a| Untold story of an American icon;

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300 a| 175 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 25 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-172) and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction : What we talk about when we talk about Samson -- Black Samson in the Temple of Liberty -- Black Samson of Brandywine -- Samson and the making of American martyrs -- Black Samson and labor movements -- The Samson complex -- But some of us are strong believers in the Samson myth -- Visual representations of Black Samson.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "The United States has never existed without a Black Samson. Before Harriet Tubman or Martin Luther King were identified with Moses, African Americans linked those who challenged racial oppression in America with Samson. In Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon, Nyasha Junior and Jeremy Schipper investigate legal documents, narratives by enslaved persons, speeches, sermons, periodicals, poetry, fiction, and visual arts to tell the unlikely story of how a flawed biblical hero became an iconic figure in America's racial history. Along the way, Schipper and Junior engage the work of African-American luminaries, including Fredrick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton, and many others. From stories of slave rebellions to the Harlem Renaissance to the civil rights era and the Black Power movement, invoking the biblical character of Samson became a powerful way for African American intellectuals, activists, and artists to voice strategies and opinions about many race-related issues, including slavery, education, patriotism, organized labor, civil rights, and gender equality. As this provocative book reveals, the story of Black Samson became a story of America's contested racial history"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Black Samson the untold story of an American icon / Nyasha Junior and Jeremy Schipper.

Author/creator	Junior, Nyasha
Other author	Schipper, Jeremy.
Other author	Oxford University Press.
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	New York : Oxford University Press, [2020].
Description	175 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
Subjects	Samson (Biblical judge)--In literature. Samson (Biblical judge)--Art. Bible. Judges--Criticism, interpretation, etc. African American men--Race identity. African American men in literature. African American men in popular culture.

Portion of title	Untold story of an American icon
Contents	Introduction : What we talk about when we talk about Samson -- Black Samson in the Temple of Liberty -- Black Samson of Brandywine -- Samson and the making of American martyrs -- Black Samson and labor movements -- The Samson complex -- But some of us are strong believers in the Samson myth -- Visual representations of Black Samson.
Abstract	"The United States has never existed without a Black Samson. Before Harriet Tubman or Martin Luther King were identified with Moses, African Americans linked those who challenged racial oppression in America with Samson. In Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon, Nyasha Junior and Jeremy Schipper investigate legal documents, narratives by enslaved persons, speeches, sermons, periodicals, poetry, fiction, and visual arts to tell the unlikely story of how a flawed biblical hero became an iconic figure in America's racial history. Along the way, Schipper and Junior engage the work of African-American luminaries, including Fredrick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton, and many others. From stories of slave rebellions to the Harlem Renaissance to the civil rights era and the Black Power movement, invoking the biblical character of Samson became a powerful way for African American intellectuals, activists, and artists to voice strategies and opinions about many race-related issues, including slavery, education, patriotism, organized labor, civil rights, and gender equality. As this provocative book reveals, the story of Black Samson became a story of America's contested racial history"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-172) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2019047199
ISBN	9780190689780 (hardback)
ISBN	(epub)

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