In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America General ; Fiction ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781622869459

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781622869459

" according to the Chronicle of Higher Education―with a new preface by the author

With multiple tentacles stretching into the cable news echo chamber

Paperback : 249 pages

In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America General ; Fiction ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781622869459In this provocative book, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., one of our nations rising young African American intellectuals, makes an impassioned plea for black America to address its social problems by recourse to experience and with an eye set on the promise and potential of the future, rather than the fixed ideas and categories of the past. Central to Glaudes mission is a rehabilitation of philosopher John Dewey, whose ideas, he argues, can be fruitfully applied