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In a Shade of Blue
Eddie S. Glaude
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Description for In a Shade of Blue
Paperback. Makes a 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. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 165 x 15. Weight in Grams: 316.
In this provocative book, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 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 often speak of as the blues - can address many ... Read more
In this provocative book, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 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 often speak of as the blues - can address many ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226298252
SKU
V9780226298252
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About Eddie S. Glaude
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America and editor of Is It Nation Time? Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for In a Shade of Blue
"Eddie Glaude is the towering public intellectual of his generation." - Cornel West "Eddie Glaude is poised to become the leading intellectual voice of our generation, raising questions that make us reexamine the assumptions we hold by expanding our inventory of ideas." - Tavis Smiley"