We are the leaders we have been looking for /
Glaude, Eddie S., Jr., 1968-
We are the leaders we have been looking for / Eddie S. Glaude Jr. - 168 pages ; 22 cm. - W.E.B. Du Bois lectures . - W.E.B. Du Bois lectures. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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"--
9780674737600 0674737601
2023039966
African Americans--Politics and government.
Political participation--United States.
Political leadership--United States.
Activism--United States.
Political activists--United States.
We are the leaders we have been looking for / Eddie S. Glaude Jr. - 168 pages ; 22 cm. - W.E.B. Du Bois lectures . - W.E.B. Du Bois lectures. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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"--
9780674737600 0674737601
2023039966
African Americans--Politics and government.
Political participation--United States.
Political leadership--United States.
Activism--United States.
Political activists--United States.