We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For

I loved Dr. Glaude's Begin Again, and was so excited to read this book. In many ways, it makes sense that the follow-up to Glaude's book on James Baldwin has the thesis that it does--if Begin Again was a deification of Baldwin, We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For argues directly against that......more

Eddie Glaude proves once again that he is a deep researcher and a deeper thinker. In this short book, he revisits his lectures at Harvard that desperately seeks to define democracy and democratic pragmatism. His thoroughness allows him to pull from different philosophers who have opined on democracy......more

Glaude is speaking mainly to the experience of African Americans in this book which is based on the Du Bois Lectures at Harvard. However, I believe that the approach he is advocating is really applicable to everyone who feels that our democracy is in deep trouble. The book is short, pithy and deep.......more

This was a good comparison about the leaders of the civil rights movement and how the role of the leaders that became the face of the movement vs. the work of Ella baker. The point of the book is that the leaders within the community are the ones that can and do the work. This is potentially a good......more

It’s couched in a very academic context but these few paragraphs seem really important to my understanding of race, democracy and history: “There is something terribly familiar about Wolin's account of fugitive democracy. Not so much in his appeal to fifth-century Athens; I have always been struck by......more