We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking for
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2024.
Format: Book
Description: 168 pages ; 22 cm.
"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.
Series: W.E.B. Du Bois lectures.
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.
Subjects:
African Americans -- Politics and government.
Political participation -- United States.
Political leadership -- United States.
Activism -- United States.
Political activists -- United States.
African Americans -- Politics and government.
Political participation -- United States.
Political leadership -- United States.
Activism -- United States.
Political activists -- United States.
ISBN:
9780674737600
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
GOV Politics US Gla | Main (Downtown) | Nonfiction | Held |
Includes bibliographical references and index.