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We are the leaders we have been looking for / Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glaude, Eddie S., Jr., 1968-
- Series:
- W. E. B. du Bois Lectures
- The W. E. B. du Bois Lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Politics and government.
- African Americans.
- Political participation--United States.
- Political participation.
- Political leadership--United States.
- Political leadership.
- Activism--United States.
- Activism.
- Political activists--United States.
- Political activists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (168 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Based on the Du Bois Lectures delivered at Harvard in 2011, We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For argues for the importance of self-cultivation in pursuit of justice as a critical feature of Black politics, what Eddie S. Glaude Jr. calls Black democratic perfectionism. Building on the political scientist Adolph Reed's work on 'Black custodial politics' Glaude critiques our impulse to outsource political needs to a professional class of politicians that purportedly represent us. Instead, he affirms the capacities of ordinary people to cultivate a better self and a better world by locating the prophetic and the heroic not in the pulpit but in the pew"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- A Story
- Looking Back
- 1. On Prophecy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- 2. On Heroism and Malcolm X
- 3. On Democracy and Ella Baker
- A Thicket of Thorns.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780674296718
- 0674296710
- 9780674296725
- 0674296729
- OCLC:
- 1427663988
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