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Agonistic Homegoing: Frederick Douglass, Joseph Lowery, and the Democratic Value of African American Public Mourning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2010

SIMON STOW
SIMON STOW*
Affiliation:
College of William and Mary
*
Simon Stow is Associate Professor, Department of Government, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187 (sastow@wm.edu).
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Abstract

What does the furor over the “politicization” of Coretta Scott King's funeral reveal about contemporary black mourning practices? What does it reveal about black political thought, rhetoric, and practice? Identifying two key modes of mourning and their concomitant conceptions of democracy, this article situates the funeral within a tradition of self-consciously political responses to loss that played a significant role in abolitionism and the struggle for civil rights. Tracing the tradition's origins, and employing the speeches of Frederick Douglass as an exemplar, it considers the approach's democratic value and the consequences of its failure. Arguing that the response to the King funeral indicates that the tradition is in decline, the article locates causes of this decline in significant changes among the black population and in the complex consequences of the tradition's previous successes. It concludes by considering the decline's potentially negative impact, both for African Americans and for the broader political community.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 104 , Issue 4 , November 2010 , pp. 681 - 697
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