The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought
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Melvin L. Rogers is associate professor of political science and associate director of the Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Brown University. He is the author of The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy, coeditor of African American Political Thought: A Collected History, and editor of John Dewey's The Public and Its Problems. Diontae Black is one of the narrators of Cornel West's Prophesy Deliverance! An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity and Nikki St. Crowe's Vicious Lost Boys series, among other audiobooks. This audiobook narrated by Diontae Black gives a powerful account of what a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American activists, intellectuals, and artists can teach us about democracy Could the African American political tradition save American democracy? African Americans have had every reason to doubt America's democratic experiment. Yet African American activists, intellectuals, and artists who have sought to transform the United States into a racially just society have put forward some of the most original and powerful ideas about how to make America live up to its democratic ideals. In The Darkened Light of Faith, Melvin Rogers provides a bold new account of African American political thought through the works and lives of individuals who built this vital tradition, which is urgently needed today. The book reexamines how figures as diverse as David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Anna Julia Cooper, Ida B. Wells, W. E. B. Du Bois, Billie Holiday, and James Baldwin thought about the politics, people, character, and culture of a society that so often dominated them. Sharing a light of faith darkened but not extinguished by the tragic legacy of slavery, they resisted the conclusion that America would always be committed to white supremacy. They believed that democracy is always in the process of becoming and that they could use it to reimagine society. But they also saw that achieving racial justice wouldn't absolve us of the darkest features of our shared past, and that democracy must be measured by how skillfully we confront a history that will forever remain with us. An ambitious account of the profound ways African Americans have reimagined democracy, The Darkened Light of Faith offers invaluable lessons about how to grapple with racial injustice and make democracy work. "Rogers thoroughly rewrites our understanding of the history of political philosophy by at long last incorporating nineteenth-century African American thought in the narrative. When liberalism and utilitarianism abandoned commitments to participation, civic culture, and solidarity in the mid-nineteenth century, republicanism didn't die. Instead, African American thinkers mined and transformed this tradition, as Rogers in turn does again, to push Americans toward a full flowering of a culture rooted in freedom and dignity for all. This is a brilliant book."-Danielle Allen, author of Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality "Rarely does a book fundamentally alter our understanding of a subject. Melvin Rogers's The Darkened Light of Faith is one such book. Grand and profound, it not only provides insights about the people and ideas it examines, but also offers wisdom about how we ought to live together. The care and brilliance with which Rogers treats African American political thought is breathtaking and inspiring. This will be a foundational book for as long as the world turns."-Nicholas Buccola, author of The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America "At a moment when the value of democracy has been challenged by a resurgent authoritarian right and, in entirely different ways and to different ends, by antiracist thinkers on the left, Rogers advances a brilliant defense of democratic ideals. The Darkened Light of Faith makes its case through innovative read
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