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100 1 _aGlaude, Eddie S.,
_cJr.,
_d1968-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aWe are the leaders we have been looking for /
_cEddie S. Glaude Jr.
264 1 _aCambridge, Massachusetts :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2024]
300 _a168 pages ;
_c22 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aW.E.B. Du Bois lectures
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tA Story --
_tLooking Back --
_tOn Prophecy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. --
_tOn Heroism and Malcom X --
_tOn Democracy and Ella Baker --
_tA Thicket of Thorns.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_xPolitics and government.
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650 0 _aPolitical participation
_zUnited States.
_971632
650 0 _aPolitical leadership
_zUnited States.
_932480
650 0 _aActivism
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aPolitical activists
_zUnited States.
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