The city on the hill from below : the crisis of prophetic Black politics
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The city on the hill from below : the crisis of prophetic Black politics
Temple University Press, 2012, c2011
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Within the discipline of American political science and the field of political theory, African American prophetic political critique as a form of political theorizing has been largely neglected. Stephen Marshall, in The City on the Hill from Below, interrogates the political thought of David Walker, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. DuBois, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison to reveal a vital tradition of American political theorizing and engagement with an American political imaginary forged by the City on the Hill. Originally articulated to describe colonial settlement, state formation, and national consolidation, the image of the City on the Hill has been transformed into one richly suited to assessing and transforming American political evil. The City on the Hill from Below shows how African American political thinkers appropriated and revised languages of biblical prophecy and American republicanism.
Table of Contents
- One: Introduction: The City on the Hill from Below
- Two: Black Liberty in the City of Enmity: The Political Theory of David Walker
- Three: "Glorious Revolution" in the City of Mastery: Frederick Douglass on the Corruption of the American Republic
- Four: Aristocratic Strivings in the Gilded City: The Political Theory of The Souls of Black Folk
- Five: (Making )Love in the Dishonorable City: The Civic Poetry of James Baldwin
- Six: Conclusion: Prophetic Critique in the Age of the Joshua Generation
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