We are the leaders we have been looking for / Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
2024
E185.89.P6
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Title
We are the leaders we have been looking for / Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
ISBN
9780674296725 PDF ebook
0674296729
9780674296718 ePub ebook
0674296710 ePub ebook
9780674737600 (hardcover)
0674737601 (hardcover)
0674296729
9780674296718 ePub ebook
0674296710 ePub ebook
9780674737600 (hardcover)
0674737601 (hardcover)
Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2024.
Copyright
©2024
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (168 pages)
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E185.89.P6
Dewey Decimal Classification
323/.0420973 OCoLC
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.
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. weaves personal anecdotes and meditations to offer a positive vision for Black politics: the importance of ordinary people assuming the mantle of leaders and heroes our democracy desperately needs. To build a better world, we must cultivate our best selves, not rely on the professional politicians who purportedly represent us.
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. weaves personal anecdotes and meditations to offer a positive vision for Black politics: the importance of ordinary people assuming the mantle of leaders and heroes our democracy desperately needs. To build a better world, we must cultivate our best selves, not rely on the professional politicians who purportedly represent us.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed April 16, 2024).
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W.E.B. Du Bois lectures.
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We are the leaders we have been looking for.
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Table of Contents
A story
Looking back
On prophecy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
On heroism and Malcom X
On democracy and Ella Baker
A thicket of thorns.
Looking back
On prophecy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
On heroism and Malcom X
On democracy and Ella Baker
A thicket of thorns.