The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought L. Rogers Melvin
The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought L. Rogers Melvin A powerful new account of what a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African…
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The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought L. Rogers Melvin
A powerful new account of what a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American activists, intellectuals, and artists can teach us about democracyCould the African American political tradition save American democracy? Yet African American activists, intellectuals, and artists who have sought to transform the United States into a racially just society have put forward some of the most original and powerful ideas about how to make America live up to its democratic ideals. African Americans have had every reason to reject America's democratic experiment.
In The Darkened Light of Faith, Melvin Rogers provides a bold new account of African American political thought through the works and lives of individuals who built this vital tradition--a tradition that is urgently needed today.The book reexamines how figures as diverse as David Walker, Frederick