{"id":45337,"date":"2016-01-25T02:41:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T02:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45337"},"modified":"2016-01-25T02:41:16","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T02:41:16","slug":"democracy-in-black-how-race-still-enslaves-the-american-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45337","title":{"rendered":"Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Crown<\/a>
\n2016-01-12
\n288 Pages
\n6-1\/4 x 9-1\/4
\nHardcover ISBN: 9780804137416
\nEbook ISBN: 9780804137423<\/p>\n

Eddie S. Glaude Jr.<\/a><\/strong>, William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African-American Studies
\nPrinceton University<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society<\/em><\/p>\n

America\u2019s great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act<\/a>, to the disaster visited upon poor and middle-class black families by the Great Recession<\/a>, it is clear that black America faces an emergency\u2014at the very moment the election of the first black president<\/a> has prompted many to believe we\u2019ve solved America\u2019s race problem.<\/p>\n

Democracy in Black<\/em> is Eddie S. Glaude Jr.\u2019s impassioned response. Part manifesto, part history, part memoir, it argues that we live in a country founded on a \u201cvalue gap\u201d\u2014with white lives valued more than others\u2014that still distorts our politics today. Whether discussing why all Americans have racial habits that reinforce inequality, why black politics based on the civil-rights era have reached a dead end, or why only remaking democracy from the ground up can bring real change, Glaude crystallizes the untenable position of black America\u2013and offers thoughts on a better way forward. Forceful in ideas and unsettling in its candor, Democracy In Black<\/em> is a landmark book on race in America, one that promises to spark wide discussion as we move toward the end of our first black presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul Crown 2016-01-12 288 Pages 6-1\/4 x 9-1\/4 Hardcover ISBN: 9780804137416 Ebook ISBN: 9780804137423 Eddie S. Glaude Jr., William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African-American Studies Princeton University A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,11,1467,8,17,26,20],"tags":[22778,12250,21898],"class_list":["post-45337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-books","category-law","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-politics","category-usa","tag-crown","tag-eddie-glaude-jr","tag-eddie-s-glaude-jr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45338,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45337\/revisions\/45338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}