{"product_id":"untimely-democracy-the-politics-of-progress-after-slavery-9780190642792","title":"Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress After Slavery","description":"From the abolition era to the Civil Rights movement to the age of Obama, the promise of perfectibility and improvement resonates in the story of American democracy. But what exactly does racial progress mean, and how do we recognize and achieve it? \u003cem\u003eUntimely Democracy: The Politics of\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eProgress After Slavery\u003c\/em\u003e uncovers a surprising answer to this question in the writings of American authors and activists, both black and white. Conventional narratives of democracy stretching from Thomas Jefferson's America to our own posit a purposeful break between past and present as the key to the\u003cbr\u003eviability of this political form--the only way to ensure its continual development. But for Pauline E. Hopkins, Frederick Douglass, Stephen Crane, W. E. B. Du Bois, Charles W. Chesnutt, Sutton E. Griggs, Callie House, and the other figures examined in this book, the campaign to secure liberty and\u003cbr\u003eequality for all citizens proceeds most potently when it refuses the precepts of progressive time. Placing these authors' post-Civil War writings into dialogue with debates about racial optimism and pessimism, tracts on progress, and accounts of ex-slave pension activism, and extending their\u003cbr\u003einsights into our contemporary period, Laski recovers late-nineteenth-century literature as a vibrant site for doing political theory. \u003cem\u003eUntimely Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e ultimately shows how one of the bleakest periods in American racial history provided fertile terrain for a radical reconstruction of our most\u003cbr\u003efundamental assumptions about this political system. Offering resources for moments when the march of progress seems to stutter and even stop, this book invites us to reconsider just what democracy can make possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gregory Laski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/12\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190642792\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGregory Laski\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Assistant Professor of English at the United States Air Force Academy. He is co-founder of the Democratic Dialogue Project, a Mellon grant-funded exchange between Air Force Academy and Colorado College students that seeks to bridge the military-civilian divide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39937564246131,"sku":"9.78019E+12","price":80.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_63141286-09a4-4f9c-a348-a188c550e908.jpg?v=1647994429","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/untimely-democracy-the-politics-of-progress-after-slavery-9780190642792","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}