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In a Shade of Blue (Paperback)
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In a Shade of Blue (Paperback)
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In this provocative book, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., one of our nation's
rising young African 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 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 the Barack
Obama presidential campaign.
"""I""n 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. "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
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