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  title info:
    title: Untimely democracy
    sub title: the politics of progress after slavery
  name:
    name part: Laski, Gregory
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 269 pages .)
  abstract: "From the abolition era to the Civil Rights movement to the age of Obama, the promise of perfectibility and improvement resonates in the story of American democracy. But what exactly does racial "progress" mean, and how do we recognize and achieve it? Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress After Slavery uncovers a surprising answer to this question in the writings of American authors and activists, both black and white. Conventional narratives of democracy stretching from Thomas Jefferson's America to our own posit a purposeful break between past and present as the key to the viability of this political form--the only way to ensure its continual development. But for Pauline E. Hopkins, Frederick Douglass, Stephen Crane, W.E.B. Du Bois, Charles W. Chesnutt, Sutton E. Griggs, Callie House, and the other figures examined in this book, the campaign to secure liberty and equality for all citizens proceeds most potently when it refuses the precepts of progressive time. Placing these authors' post-Civil War writings into dialogue with debates about racial optimism and pessimism, tracts on progress, and accounts of ex-slave pension activism, and extending their insights into our contemporary period, Laski recovers late-nineteenth-century literature as a vibrant site for doing political theory. Untimely Democracy ultimately shows how one of the bleakest periods in American racial history provided fertile terrain for a radical reconstruction of our most fundamental assumptions about this political system. Offering resources for moments when the march of progress seems to stutter and even stop, this book invites us to reconsider just what democracy can make possible."--
  table of contents: Introduction: Democracy's Progress -- 1. On the Possibility of Democracy in the Present-Past: Reading Thomas Jefferson and W.E B. Du Bois in the Times of Slavery and Freedom -- 2. Narrating the Present-Past in Frederick Douglass's Life and Times -- 3. Making Reparation; or, How to Count the Wrongs of Slavery -- 4. Failed Futures: Of Prophecy and Pessimism at the Nadir -- 5. Pauline E. Hopkins's Untimely Democracy: Stasis, Agitation, Agency -- Epilogue: Democracy's Plunges.
  note: Gregory Laski.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    topic: African American authors
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Progress in literature
  subject:
    topic: Democracy in literature
  subject:
    topic: Slavery in literature
  subject:
    topic: African Americans in literature
  subject:
    topic: Progrès dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Esclavage dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Noirs américains dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: African Americans in literature
  subject:
    topic: American literature
    topic: African American authors
  subject:
    topic: Democracy in literature
  subject:
    topic: Progress in literature
  subject:
    topic: Slavery in literature
  subject:
    topic: Demokratie
  subject:
    topic: Fortschritt
  subject:
    topic: Literatur
  subject:
    topic: Schwarze
  subject:
    topic: Sklaverei
  subject:
    geographic: USA
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: PS153.N5 L38 2018
  classification: 810.9/896073
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    title info:
      title: Untimely democracy
    name:
      name part: Laski, Gregory.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
    identifier: (DLC) 2017017170
    identifier: (OCoLC)986237068
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    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 171002
    record change date: 20260319164333.5
    record identifier: in00005715348
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng