Beschreibung:
This book demonstrates how certain African American writers radically re-envisioned core American ideals in order to make them serviceable for racial justice. Each writer's unprecedented reconstruction of key American values has the potential to energize American citizenship today.
1. African American Political Thought and American Culture2. James Baldwin's Reconstruction of American Freedom3. Ralph Ellison's Democratic Vision4. Toni Morrison's Beloved, Generosity and Racial Justice5. Racial Justice Today