![]() ![]() ![]() How blacks think about themselves, how they imagine their own history, and how they conceive of their own actions can be rendered in ways that escape bad ways of thinking that assume a tendentious political unity among African Americans simply because they are black. According to Glaude, Deweyâs pragmatism, when attentive to the darker dimensions of lifeâor what we often speak of as the bluesâcan address many of the conceptual problems that plague contemporary African American discourse. Central to Glaudeâs mission is a rehabilitation of philosopher John Dewey, whose ideas, he argues, can be fruitfully applied to a renewal of African American politics. Glaude Jr., one of our nationâs rising young Afircan American intellectuals, makes an impassioned plea for black America to address its social problems by recourse to experience and with an eye set on the promise and potential of the future, rather than the fixed ideas and categories of the past. ![]()
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