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02116aam a22003618i 4500 001 F75481C2199211EFAA2C9EE853ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240524010037 008 230914t20242024mau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023039966 020 $a 0674737601 020 $a 9780674737600 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d SILO 082 00 $a 323/.0420973 $2 23/eng/20230918 100 1 $a Glaude, Eddie S., $c Jr., $d 1968- $e author. 245 10 $a We are the leaders we have been looking for / $c Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 263 $a 2405 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b Harvard University Press, $c 2024. 300 $a pages cm. 490 1 $a W.E.B. Du Bois lectures 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $t A Thicket of Thorns. $t Looking Back -- $t On Prophecy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- $t On Heroism and Malcom X -- $t On Democracy and Ella Baker -- $t A Thicket of Thorns. 520 $a "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 political scientist Adolph Reed's work on 'Black custodial politics' Glaude critiques our impulse to outsource political needs to a professional class of politicians that purportedly represent us. Instead, he affirmsthe capacities of ordinary people to cultivate a better self and a better world by locating the prophetic and the heroic not in the pulpit but in the pew"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Politics and government. 650 0 $a Political participation $z United States. 650 0 $a Political leadership $z United States. 650 0 $a Activism $z United States. 650 0 $a Political activists $z United States. 830 0 $a W.E.B. Du Bois lectures. 941 $a 2 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20240529010204.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240524010613.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F75481C2199211EFAA2C9EE853ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search