In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America General ; Fiction " according to the Chronicle

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

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9781622869459

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Emmanuel Acho connects his own experience with race and racism―from attending majority-white prep schools to his time in the NFL playing on majority-black football teams―to insightful lessons in black history and black culture

the renowned scholar

In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America General ; Fiction " according to the ChronicleIn 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