LEADER 03394nam 2200733 a 450 001 9910967619103321 005 20230126203314.0 010 $a9781439906569 010 $a1439906564 010 $a9781439906576 010 $a1439906572 035 $a(CKB)2550000001114779 035 $a(EBL)712342 035 $a(OCoLC)739718930 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000535045 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11333940 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535045 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10521923 035 $a(PQKB)10799989 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000777056 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12303938 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000777056 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10754707 035 $a(PQKB)23802820 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC712342 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse13415 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL712342 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10477350 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL514651 035 $a(Perlego)2040039 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001114779 100 $a20101104d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe city on the hill from below $ethe crisis of prophetic Black politics /$fStephen H. Marshall 210 $aPhiladelphia $cTemple University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781439906552 311 08$a1439906556 311 08$a9781299834002 311 08$a1299834000 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The City on the Hill from Below; 1. Black Liberty in the City of Enmity: The Political Theory of David Walker; 2. "Glorious Revolution" in the City of Mastery: Frederick Douglass on the Corruption of the American Republic; 3. Aristocratic Strivings in the Gilded City: The Political Theory of The Souls of Black Folk; 4. (Making) Love in the Dishonorable City: The Civic Poetry of James Baldwin; Conclusion: Prophetic Political Critique in the Age of the Joshua Generation; Notes; Index 330 $aWithin the discipline of American political science and the field of political theory, African American prophetic political critique as a form of political theorizing has been largely neglected. Stephen Marshall, in The City on the Hill from Below, interrogates the political thought of David Walker, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison to reveal a vital tradition of American political theorizing and engagement with an American political imaginary forged by the City on the Hill.Originally articulated to describe colonial settlement, state f 606 $aAfrican Americans$xPolitics and government 606 $aAfrican Americans$xPolitics and government$xPhilosophy 606 $aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xPolitics and government$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions. 676 $a323.1196/073 700 $aMarshall$b Stephen H$01811287 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910967619103321 996 $aThe city on the hill from below$94363069 997 $aUNINA