Nick Bromell

The Time Is Always Now

Black Thought and the Transformation of Us Democracy

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Produktbeschreibung

Nick Bromell argues in The Time is Always Now that blacks' reflections on their painful experience and their ability to advocate for people 'both black and more than black' (an Obama quote) provides us with the foundation for constructing a democracy that is less angry and more welcoming of a cosmopolitan polity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Prairie Wind Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 162mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780199973439
• ISBN-10: 0199973431
• Artikelnr.: 38079898

Autorenporträt

Nick Bromell is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and author of Tomorrow Never Knows (University of Chicago Press)

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "'Black and More than Black' "
Chapter One: "The Tension Perpetually Sustained "
Democratic Indignation and the Dynamics of Black Philosophy
Chapter Two: "An Almost Contemptuous Fairness "
Styles of Democratic Indignation
Chapter Three: "This Is Personal "
Human Relationships and the Production of Democratic Dignity
Chapter Four: "The Network of Complex Relationships Which Bind Us Together "
Chesnutt, Larsen, and Baldwin on Seeing and Knowing Others
Chapter Five: "The Full Understanding of My Relationship to America "
Black Imaginings of Patriotic Cosmopolitanism
Chapter Six: "The Moral Force of the Universe "
Faith and Pluralism in the Black Democratic Imagination
Chapter Seven: "The Moment We're In "
The Democratic Imagination of Barack Obama