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170629s2018 nyua b 001 0 eng |
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9780197624128 |
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. |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
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PS153.N5 |
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L38 2018 |
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810.9896073 |
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23 |
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L345 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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Laski, Gregory, |
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47154 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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Untimely democracy : |
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the politics of progress after slavery / |
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Gregory Laski. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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New York, NY, United States of America : |
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Oxford University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2018 . |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xv, 269 p. ; |
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ill. ; |
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25 cm |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages ix-x, 213-257) and index. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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Machine generated contents note: -- 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. |
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"From the abolition era to the Civil Rights movement to the age of Obama, the promise of perfectibility and improvement resonates in the story of American democracy. But what exactly does racial "progress" mean, and how do we recognize and achieve it? Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress After Slavery uncovers a surprising answer to this question in the writings of American authors and activists, both black and white. Conventional narratives of democracy stretching from Thomas Jefferson's America to our own posit a purposeful break between past and present as the key to the viability of this political form--the only way to ensure its continual development. But for Pauline E. Hopkins, Frederick Douglass, Stephen Crane, W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles W. Chesnutt, Sutton E. Griggs, Callie House, and the other figures examined in this book, the campaign to secure liberty and equality for all citizens proceeds most potently when it refuses the precepts of progressive time. Placing these authors' post-Civil War writings into dialogue with debates about racial optimism and pessimism, tracts on progress, and accounts of ex-slave pension activism, and extending their insights into our contemporary period, Laski recovers late-nineteenth-century literature as a vibrant site for doing political theory. Untimely Democracy ultimately shows how one of the bleakest periods in American racial history provided fertile terrain for a radical reconstruction of our most fundamental assumptions about this political system. Offering resources for moments when the march of progress seems to stutter and even stop, this book invites us to reconsider just what democracy can make possible."-- |
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American literature |
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African American authors |
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History and criticism. |
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46620 |
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Progress in literature. |
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47155 |
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Democracy in literature. |
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47156 |
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Slavery in literature. |
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42574 |
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Book |
