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There have been many answers on offer for liberalism's anemic approval ratings, but as this book shows, we may have been looking in the wrong places and using the wrong defenses for liberal democracy. Focusing on the long history of black political participation and protest, this book contends that it offers object lessons for liberalism.
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Politics and government, Political culture, Equality, Philosophy, Political activity, African Americans, African American intellectuals, Liberalism, History, African americans, politics and government, United states, politics and government, African american philosophy, United states, history, philosophyPlaces
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The time is always now: Black thought and the transformation of US democracy
2013, Oxford University Press
in English
0199973431 9780199973439
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Black thought and the transformation of US public philosophy
1. From indignation to dignity: What anger does for democracy
2. "This is personal": The politics of relationships in Jim Crow America
3. The art of citizenship: Nella Larson, James Baldwin, and the difficulty of knowing others
4. "A greater, broader sense of humanity and world fellowship": Black worldly citizenship from Douglass to Malcolm X
5. "Religion in the sense of striving for the infinite": Faith, pluralism, and democratic action
6. "The moment we're in": The democratic imagination of Barack Obama
A coda for my colleagues: Fusing critique and vision
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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