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From the author of the New York Times bestseller Begin Again , a politically astute, lyrical meditation on how ordinary Black Americans can shake off their reliance on a small group of professional politicians and pursue self-cultivation and grassroots movements to achieve a more just and perfect democracy. We are more than the circumstances of our lives, and what we do matters. In We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For , one of the nation’s preeminent scholars and a New York Times bestselling author, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., makes the case that the hard work of becoming a better person should be a critical feature of Black politics. Through virtuoso interpretations of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Ella Baker, Glaude shows how ordinary people have the capacity to be the heroes that our democracy so desperately requires, rather than outsourcing their needs to leaders who purportedly represent them. Based on the Du Bois Lectures delivered at Harvard University, the book begins with Glaude’s unease with the Obama years. He felt then, and does even more urgently now, that the excitement around the Obama presidency had become a disciplining tool to narrow legiti

Who reads We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)?

Author

Eddie Glaude, Jr., Eddie Glaude

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674737600

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities