In a shade of blue : pragmatism and the politics of Black America /
In this provocative book, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., one of our nation's rising young Afircan American intellectuals, makes an impassioned plea for black America to address its social problems by recourse to experience and with an eye set on the promise and potential of the future, rather than the fi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press,
2007
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | In this provocative book, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., one of our nation's rising young Afircan American intellectuals, makes an impassioned plea for black America to address its social problems by recourse to experience and with an eye set on the promise and potential of the future, rather than the fixed ideas and categories of the past. Central to Glaude's mission is a rehabilitation of philosopher John Dewey, whose ideas, he argues, can be fruitfully applied to a renewal of African American politics. According to Glaude, Dewey's pragmatism, when attentive to the darker dimensions of life--or what we. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 189 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-176) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226298269 0226298264 1282426494 9781282426498 9786612426490 6612426497 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
