Nick Bromell

The Powers of Dignity

The Black Political Philosophy of Frederick Douglass

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Produktbeschreibung

Nick Bromell examines how Frederick Douglass forged a distinctively black political philosophy out of his experiences as an enslaved and later nominally free man in ways that challenge Anglo-Continental traditions of political thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 430g
• ISBN-13: 9781478011262
• ISBN-10: 1478011262
• Artikelnr.: 59580011

Autorenporträt

Nick Bromell is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and editor of A Political Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois and The Time Is Always Now: Black Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. "The Thing Looked Absurd": The Black in Douglass's Political
Philosophy  1
1. "To Become a Colored Man": Proposing Black Powers to the Black Public
Sphere  17
2. "A Chapter of Political Philosophy Applicable to the American People":
Human Nature, Human Dignity, Human Rights  38
3. "One Method for Expressing Opposite Emotions": Douglass's Fugitive
Rhetoric  55
4. "Assault Compels Defense": Douglass on Black Emigration and Violence  82
5. "A Living Root, Not a Twig Broken Off": Douglass's Constitutionalism and
the Paradox of Democracy's Foundations  101
6. "Somebody's Child": Awakening, Resistance, and Vulnerability in My
Bondage and My Freedom  124
7. "Nothing Less Than a Radical Revolution": Douglass's Struggle for a
Democracy without Race  159
8. "That Strange, Mysterious, and Indescribable": The Fugitive Legacy of
Douglass's Political Thought  188
Notes  207
Bibliography  243
Index  263