In a shade of blue : pragmatism and the politics of Black America / Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glaude, Eddie S., Jr., 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dewey, John, 1859-1952.

Dewey, John.

Pragmatism.

African Americans--Religion.

African Americans.

African Americans--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this provocative book, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., one of our nation's rising young African American intellectuals, makes an impassioned plea for black America to address its social problems by recourse to experience and with an eye set on the promise and potential of the future, rather than the fixed ideas and categories of the past. Central to Glaude's mission is a rehabilitation of philosopher John Dewey, whose ideas, he argues, can be fruitfully applied to a renewal of African American politics. According to Glaude, Dewey's pragmatism, when attentive to

Contents:

Tragedy and moral experience : John Dewey and Toni Morrison's Beloved

"Black and proud" : reconstructing black identity

"Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands unto God" : the problem of history in black theology

Agency, slavery, and African American Christianity

Explicating Black nationalism

The eclipse of a black public and the challenge of a post-soul politics.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-176) and index.

ISBN:

9786612426490

9781282426498

1282426494

9780226298269

0226298264

OCLC:

527658185