Gregory Laski

Untimely Democracy

The Politics of Progress After Slavery

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Produktbeschreibung

Untimely Democracy offers an exploration of how one of the bleakest periods in American racial history provided fertile terrain for a radical reconstruction of America's most fundamental assumptions about democracy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780190642792
• ISBN-10: 0190642793
• Artikelnr.: 48208935

Autorenporträt

Gregory Laski is an Assistant Professor of English at the United States Air Force Academy. He is co-founder of the Democratic Dialogue Project, a Mellon grant-funded exchange between Air Force Academy and Colorado College students that seeks to bridge the military-civilian divide.

Inhaltsangabe

* Table of Contents:
* Acknowledgements
* Introduction: Democracy's Progress
* Chapter One: On the Possibility of Democracy in the Present-Past:
Reading Thomas Jefferson and W. E. B. Du Bois in the Times of Slavery
and Freedom
* Chapter Two: Narrating the Present-Past in Frederick Douglass's Life
and Times
* Chapter Three: Making Reparation; or, How to Count the Wrongs of
Slavery
* Chapter Four: Failed Futures: Of Prophecy and Pessimism at the Nadir
* Chapter Five: Pauline E. Hopkins's Untimely Democracy (Stasis,
Agitation, Agency)
* Epilogue: Democracy's Plunges