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04870aam a2200565 i 4500 001 254CDA3CE17011EC82262A731FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220601010025 008 201012s2021 ncu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020024547 020 $a 1478011262 020 $a 9781478011262 020 $a 1478010223 020 $a 9781478010227 035 $a (OCoLC)1157907519 040 $a NcD/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d NDD $d BKL $d GYG $d ZLM $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E449.D75 $b B766 2021 082 00 $a 973.8092 $2 23 100 1 $a Bromell, Nicholas Knowles, $e author. 245 14 $a The powers of dignity : $b the black political philosophy of Frederick Douglass / $c Nick Bromell. 264 1 $a Durham : $b Duke University Press, $c 2021. 300 $a xi, 271 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-261) and index. 520 $a "The Powers of Dignity uncovers and analyzes the distinctively Black political philosophy that Frederick Douglass forged from his experience as an enslaved and later nominally free black man. Because he unwaveringly viewed politics and democracy from the standpoint of a racialized black subject, his philosophy both challenges and potentially transforms the Anglo-Continental tradition of political thought"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "In The Powers of Dignity Nick Bromell unpacks Frederick Douglass's 1867 claim that he had âelaborated a political philosophyâ from his own âslave experience.â Bromell shows that Douglass devised his philosophy because he found that antebellum Americans' liberal-republican understanding of democracy did not provide a sufficient principled basis on which to fight anti-Black racism. To remedy this deficiency, Douglass deployed insights from his distinctively Black experience and developed a Black philosophy of democracy. He began by contesting the founders' racist assumptions about humanity and advancing instead a more robust theory of âthe humanâ as a collection of human âpowers.â He asserted further that the conscious exercise of those powers is what confirms human dignity and that human rights and democracy come into being as ways to affirm and protect that dignity. Thus, by emphasizing the powers and the dignity of all citizens, deriving democratic rights from these, and promoting a remarkably activist, power-oriented model of citizenship, Douglass's Black political philosophy aimed to rectify two major failings of US democracy in his time and ours: its complacence and its racism." -- Publisher's description 505 00 $t "That strange, mysterious, and indescribable": the fugitive legacy of Douglass's political thought. $t "To become a colored man": proposing Black powers to the Black public sphere -- $t "A chapter of political philosophy applicable to the American people": human nature, human dignity, human rights -- $t "One method for expressing opposite emotions": Douglass's fugitive rhetoric -- $t "Assault compels defense": Douglass on Black emigration and violence -- $t "A living root, not a twig broken off": Douglass's constitutionalism and the paradox of democracy's foundations -- $t "Somebody's child": awakening, resistance, and vulnerability in My Bondage and My Freedom -- $t "Nothing less than a radical revolution": Douglass's struggle for a democracy without race -- $t "That strange, mysterious, and indescribable": the fugitive legacy of Douglass's political thought. 600 10 $a Douglass, Frederick, $d 1818-1895 $x Political and social views. 600 10 $a Douglass, Frederick, $d 1818-1895 $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a African American abolitionists. 650 0 $a Antislavery movements $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a United States $x History $x History $y 19th century. 650 6 $a Abolitionnistes noirs ameÌricains. 650 6 $a Mouvements antiesclavagistes $z EÌtats-Unis $x Histoire $y 19e sieÌcle. 651 6 $a EÌtats-Unis $x Histoire $x Histoire $y 19e sieÌcle. 600 17 $a Douglass, Frederick, $d 1818-1895. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00049680 650 7 $a African American abolitionists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00798994 650 7 $a Antislavery movements. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00810800 650 7 $a Philosophy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01060777 650 7 $a Political and social views. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01353986 650 7 $a Race relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086509 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Bromell, Nicholas Knowles $t The powers of dignity $d Durham : Duke University Press, 2021. $z 9781478012801 $w (DLC) 2020024548 941 $a 1 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20220601010539.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=254CDA3CE17011EC82262A731FECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search