MLK boulevard: Material forms of memory and the social contestation of racial signification

Journal of Black Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1148-1170

  Caliendo, Guillermo G ^a  

^a HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blackness; Commemoration; Discourse; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Memorials; Public Memory; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053002347     PISSN: 00219347     EISSN: 15524566     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021934711404415     Document Type: Article

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