Toward a Progressive Democratic Politics of Race

The two books that have occasioned this symposium represent efforts to research thoroughly, think rigorously, and argue honestly about complex and significant issues of race and ethnicity in America. There is much to be learned from them on many topics. I read them chiefly for insights about whether and how a defensibly democratic politics of egalitarian change can be achieved by, for, and with racial minorities in a country whose majorities, like most majorities, have long been reluctant to pursue policies that did not predominantly benefit themselves. I raise some challenges to the perspectives offered in these books, but only as an effort, kindred in aim if not achievement, to carry forward the work they have thus far so nobly advanced

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• Battle Cry of Freedom

  James M Mcpherson•Battle Cry of Freedom•1988

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• Machiavellian Democracy

  Open Access•John P Mccormick•Machiavellian Democracy•2011

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• Two Fugitive Democracy

  Sheldon S Wolin•Democracy and Difference•1996

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• Democracy's Reconstruction

  Lawrie Balfour, Katharine Lawrence Balfour•Democracy's reconstruction•2011

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• Stories of Peoplehood

  Open Access•R M Smith•Stories of Peoplehood•2003

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• Black Reconstruction in America

  W E B Du Bois•Black Reconstruction in America•2017

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• Shakespeare and Machiavelli

  Patricia Wareh•Sixteenth Century Journal•2004

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