The Time Is Always Now: Black Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy by

by Nick Bromell

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The Time Is Always Now by Nick Bromell Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description From the 1830s to the present, black intellectuals have almost necessarily identified with the subjugated and demanded that every person s inherent dignity be recognized. Despite the fact that this tradition has lasted nearly two centuries, political philosophers have mostly ignored it as an inspiration for reconstructing democracy on more egalitarian grounds. Nick Bromell argues in The Time is Always Now that blacks reflections on their painfulexperience and their ability to advocate for people both black and more than black (an Obama quote) provides us with the foundation for constructing a democracy that is less angry and more welcoming of a cosmopolitan polity. Concise yet sweeping in scope, Black and More than Black will force people who think hardabout democracy to incorporate the insights of black Americans over time, from James McCune Smith to W.E.B. DuBois to Barack Obama. Publisher Description Why, asks Nick Bromell, should the political thought of white Americans remain the only theory to which Americans of all ethnicities turn when constructing and reconstructing their understanding of democracy? Must Americans remain locked in an apartheid of experience and perception even after whites have become a minority population in this nation? Hasn t the 2012 presidential election made clear that the time has come to build not just on the votes of

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2017
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780190640842
• Condition: Fine

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