in the United States. The dominant culture, the whites, bound and chained the blacks to stereotypes. Exhibiting qualities of an autoethnographic text, "I Have A Dream" is in effect King's "response to [whites]" (Pratt 608). He introduces things familiar to white Americans and addresses the condition of blacks in "ways that engage with representations others have made of them" (Pratt 608).
             Exhibiting characteristics of an autoethnographic text, King alludes to American familiarities, which serve to pacify and interest whites with well-known objects and events. In this approach, he "[constructs a] response to or [. . .] [a] dialogue with [whites]" (Pratt 608) because he is, in a sense, using their language and protesting the events that have serve to cripple black freedom. In addition, his rich words-employed with cultured eloquence-are employed in an educated manner because it was the common consensus that whites were the most educated. This speech is clearly a "resistance" (Pratt 609) by blacks, which Pratt defines as a "literate art" of the "contact zone." It is addressed to "both [white] audiences and the speaker's own community" (608).
             At the beginning of the speech, King points out the Lincoln Memorial, "in whose symbolic shadow [they] stand [. . .]" (King 217). It is with genius that he refers to Abraham Lincoln, who "signed the Emancipation Proclamation" (King 217), which thereafter freed slaves. In this image, King manages to introduce a familiar memorial, which is familiar to whites and serves to encourage their pride, and he manages to introduce the s
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