M Cooper Harriss
Biographic Data
| ID | 5876057 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Cooper Harriss |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Cooper |
| FAMILY NAME | Harriss |
| SIGNATURE | HARRISS M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Preposterous Religion of Muhammad Ali
Spotlighting the Muhammad Ali Center museum’s correlation between Ali’s progressive “greatness” and his religious identity reveals a sense of strategic secularization, emphasizing goodness and sincerity while attenuating elements that register as bad religion. This whitewashing of Ali’s Islamic identity mirrors scholarly treatments of the boxer’s religio-political significance that prioritize his sincere belief and religious freedom. To redress t…
One Night in Miami
On Christopher Tomlins' In the Matter of Nat Turner
Preacherly Texts
Zora Neale Hurston called African American preachers “the first artists” and understood their sermons as foundational to Black expressive culture. This essay reads closely in Hurston's anthropological writing on preachers and preaching (especially in “The Sanctified Church” and Mules and Men) to codify certain semiotic principles of preaching that then provide a critical lens for discerning “preacherly” elements of three novels by Hurston: Jonah'…
One Blues Invisible
One Blues Invisible:Civil Rights and Civil Religion in Ralph Ellison’s Second Novel M. Cooper Harriss (bio) In the immediate wake of the U. S. Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision Ralph Ellison, embarking on a follow-up novel to his award-winning Invisible Man (1952), wrote to his friend and former teacher Morteza Sprague in reflection upon the momentous ruling: Well, so now the judges have found and Negroes must be …
From Harlem Renaissance to Harlem Apocalypse
The Talking Book
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The Talking Book
From Harlem Renaissance to Harlem Apocalypse
One Blues Invisible
One Blues Invisible:Civil Rights and Civil Religion in Ralph Ellison’s Second Novel M. Cooper Harriss (bio) In the immediate wake of the U. S. Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision Ralph Ellison, embarking on a follow-up novel to his award-winning Invisible Man (1952), wrote to his friend and former teacher Morteza Sprague in reflection upon the momentous ruling: Well, so now the judges have found and Negroes must be …
Preacherly Texts
Zora Neale Hurston called African American preachers “the first artists” and understood their sermons as foundational to Black expressive culture. This essay reads closely in Hurston's anthropological writing on preachers and preaching (especially in “The Sanctified Church” and Mules and Men) to codify certain semiotic principles of preaching that then provide a critical lens for discerning “preacherly” elements of three novels by Hurston: Jonah'…
On Christopher Tomlins' In the Matter of Nat Turner
One Night in Miami
The Preposterous Religion of Muhammad Ali
Spotlighting the Muhammad Ali Center museum’s correlation between Ali’s progressive “greatness” and his religious identity reveals a sense of strategic secularization, emphasizing goodness and sincerity while attenuating elements that register as bad religion. This whitewashing of Ali’s Islamic identity mirrors scholarly treatments of the boxer’s religio-political significance that prioritize his sincere belief and religious freedom. To redress t…
Philosophy (5 works) · History (4 works) · Religious studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Citation (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Library science (2 works)