We are the leaders we have been looking for / Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

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We are the leaders we have been looking for / Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2024.

©2024

English

1 online resource (168 pages)

E185.89.P6

323/.0420973 OCoLC

"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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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W.E.B. Du Bois lectures.

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