@article{1553134,
      author = {Glaude, Eddie S.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1553134},
      title = {We are the leaders we have been looking for /},
      abstract = {"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"--},
      recid = {1553134},
      pages = {1 online resource (168 pages)},
}