We are the leaders we have been looking for / Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

"Based on the Du Bois Lectures delivered at Harvard in 2011, We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For argues for the importance of self-cultivation in pursuit of justice as a critical feature of Black politics, what Eddie S. Glaude Jr. calls Black democratic perfectionism. Building on the politic...

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Uniform Title:W.E.B. Du Bois lectures.
Main Author: Glaude, Eddie S., Jr., 1968- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2024]
Series:W.E.B. Du Bois lectures.
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Physical Description:168 pages ; 22 cm.
Format: Book

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