Author | : Gregory Laski |
File Size | : 41,6 Mb |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 24 April 2024 |
ISBN | : 9780190642792 |
Pages | : 289 pages |
Untimely Democracy by Gregory Laski Book PDF Summary
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