TY  - BOOK
AU  - Glaude,Eddie S.
TI  - We are the leaders we have been looking for
T2  - W.E.B. Du Bois lectures
SN  - 9780674737600
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Political participation
KW  - United States
KW  - Political leadership
KW  - Activism
KW  - Political activists
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -