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Democracy's Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W.E.B. Du Bois
Democracy's Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W.E.B. Du Bois
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In Democracy's Reconstruction, the latest addition to Cathy Cohen and Fredrick Harris's Transgressing Boundaries series, noted political theorist Lawrie Balfour challenges a longstanding tendency in political theory: the disciplinary division that separates political theory proper from the
study of black politics. Political theory rarely engages with black political thinkers, despite the fact that the problem of racial inequality is central to the entire enterprise of American political theory. To address this lacuna, she focuses on the political thought of W.E.B. Du Bois,
particularly his longstanding concern with the relationship between slavery's legacy and the prospects for democracy in the era he lived in. Balfour utilizes Du Bois as an intellectual resource, applying his method of addressing contemporary problems via the historical prism of slavery to address
some of the fundamental racial divides and inequalities in contemporary America. By establishing his theoretical method to study these historical connections, she positions Du Bois's work in the political theory canon--similar to the status it already has in history, sociology, philosophy, and
literature.
Author: Lawrie Balfour
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/16/2011
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780195377293
Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2011
New York Review of Books 12/22/2011 pg. 81
study of black politics. Political theory rarely engages with black political thinkers, despite the fact that the problem of racial inequality is central to the entire enterprise of American political theory. To address this lacuna, she focuses on the political thought of W.E.B. Du Bois,
particularly his longstanding concern with the relationship between slavery's legacy and the prospects for democracy in the era he lived in. Balfour utilizes Du Bois as an intellectual resource, applying his method of addressing contemporary problems via the historical prism of slavery to address
some of the fundamental racial divides and inequalities in contemporary America. By establishing his theoretical method to study these historical connections, she positions Du Bois's work in the political theory canon--similar to the status it already has in history, sociology, philosophy, and
literature.
Author: Lawrie Balfour
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/16/2011
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780195377293
Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2011
New York Review of Books 12/22/2011 pg. 81
About the Author
Lawrie Balfour is Associate Professor of Politics at University of Virginia.
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