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Harnessing the State : Oppressed Groups and the Pursuit of Radical Democracy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ramesh, Hari.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
- Ambedkar, B. R. (Bhimrao Ramji), 1891-1956.
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
- Democracy.
- Equality.
- Local Subjects:
- Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
- Ambedkar, B. R. (Bhimrao Ramji), 1891-1956.
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Building on the work of key twentieth-century US and Indian thinkers, a bold argument that oppressed groups can--and should--make use of state power to create truly democratic societies.Group-based social oppression, along lines such as caste in India and race in the United States, is a persistent problem in nominally democratic countries.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-30526-4
- 0-674-30527-2
- OCLC:
- 1590081400
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