Untimely Democracy
Download or Read eBook Untimely Democracy PDF written by Gregory Laski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Gregory Laski |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2018 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780190642792 |
ISBN-13 | : 0190642793 |
Rating | : 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Untimely Democracy by : Gregory Laski
Book excerpt: Machine generated contents note: -- Table of Contents: -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Democracy's Progress -- Chapter One: On the Possibility of Democracy in the Present-Past: Reading Thomas Jefferson and W.E.B. Du Bois in the Times of Slavery and Freedom -- Chapter Two: Narrating the Present-Past in Frederick Douglass's Life and Times -- Chapter Three: Making Reparation; or, How to Count the Wrongs of Slavery -- Chapter Four: Failed Futures: Of Prophecy and Pessimism at the Nadir -- Chapter Five: Pauline E. Hopkins's Untimely Democracy (Stasis, Agitation, Agency) -- Epilogue: Democracy's Plunges