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The time is always now : black thought and the transformation of US democracy / Nick Bromell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bromell, Nicholas Knowles.
- Series:
- Transgressing Boundaries : Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Politics and government--Philosophy.
- African Americans.
- African American intellectuals--Political activity--History.
- African American intellectuals.
- Liberalism--United States--History.
- Liberalism.
- Equality--United States--History.
- Equality.
- Political culture--United States--History.
- Political culture.
- United States--Politics and government--Philosophy.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- There have been many answers on offer for liberalism's anemic approval ratings, but as this book shows, we may have been looking in the wrong places and using the wrong defenses for liberal democracy. Focusing on the long history of black political participation and protest, this book contends that it offers object lessons for liberalism.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Black Thought and the Transformation of US Public Philosophy; 1. From Indignation to Dignity: What Anger Does for Democracy; 2. "This Is Personal": The Politics of Relationship in Jim Crow America; 3. The Art of Citizenship: Nella Larsen, James Baldwin, and the Difficulty of Knowing Others; 4. "A Greater, Broader Sense of Humanity and World Fellowship": Black Worldly Citizenship from Douglass to Malcolm X; 5. "Religion in the Sense of Striving for the Infinite": Faith, Pluralism, and Democratic Action
- 6. "The Moment We're In": The Democratic Imagination of Barack ObamaA Coda for My Colleagues: Fusing Critique and Vision; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 27, 2013).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-997345-8
- 0-19-997343-1
- 0-19-997344-X
- OCLC:
- 857492247
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