The city on the hill from below : the crisis of prophetic Black politics / / Stephen H. Marshall
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| Autore: |
Marshall Stephen H
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| Titolo: |
The city on the hill from below : the crisis of prophetic Black politics / / Stephen H. Marshall
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| Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 323.1196/073 |
| Soggetto topico: | African Americans - Politics and government |
| African Americans - Politics and government - Philosophy | |
| African Americans - Social conditions | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Politics and government |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Within 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The city on the hill from below |
| ISBN: | 9781439906569 |
| 1439906564 | |
| 9781439906576 | |
| 1439906572 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910967619103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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