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In a Shade of Blue (Hardcover)
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In a Shade of Blue (Hardcover)
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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 of the
conceptual problems that plague contemporary African American
discourse. How blacks think about themselves, how they imagine
their own history, and how they conceive of their own actions can
be rendered in ways that escape bad ways of thinking that assume a
tendentious political unity among African Americans simply because
they are black. Drawing deeply on black religious thought and
literature, "In a Shade of Blue" seeks to dislodge such crude and
simplistic thinking and replace it with a deeper understanding of
and appreciation for black life in all its variety and intricacy.
Glaude argues that only when black political leaders acknowledge
such complexity can the real-life sufferings of many African
Americans be remedied, an argument echoed in the recent rhetoric
and optimism of Barack Obama's presidential campaign."In a Shade of
Blue" is a remarkable work of political commentary, and to follow
its trajectory is to learn how African Americans arrived at this
critical moment in their cultural and political history - and to
envision where they might head in the twenty-first century.
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