The city on the hill from below : the crisis of prophetic Black politics /

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,...

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Hlavní autor: Marshall, Stephen H.
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Philadelphia : Temple University Press ©2011.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt14bt7g9
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  • 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.