Casting a black Gandhi: Martin Luther King Jr, American pacifists and the global dynamics of race
(2019)
Journal Article
Hodder, J. (2019). Casting a black Gandhi: Martin Luther King Jr, American pacifists and the global dynamics of race. Journal of American Studies, 55(1), 48-74. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875819000033
Martin Luther King Jr. is widely read through his association with Gandhi’s ideas and practice. Whilst it is important to neither overstate nor ignore this influence, the paper retraces the work undertaken behind-the-scenes to script this relationshi... Read More about Casting a black Gandhi: Martin Luther King Jr, American pacifists and the global dynamics of race.