We are the leaders we have been looking for / Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
| Author/creator | Glaude, Eddie S. author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2024. |
| Description | 168 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | The W.E.B. Du Bois lectures W.E.B. Du Bois lectures. ^A409595 |
| 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. |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Glaude, Eddie S., Jr., 1968- We are the leaders we have been looking for. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2024 9780674296725 |
| LCCN | 2023039966 |
| ISBN | 9780674737600 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0674737601 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | E185.89 .P6 G53 2024 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |