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The City on the Hill From Below: The Crisis of Prophetic Black Politics

By Stephen Marshall

Book information

Publisher
Temple University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
1439906556, 9781439906552, 9781439906576
LCC
E185.615 .M296 2011
Google Books ID
CCfoi_rasU8C
Open Library ID
OL25136620M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1387082 bytes)
Pages
249\249
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

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.

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