The Darkened Light of Faith Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought [Audiobook]

A powerful account of what a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American activists, intellectuals, and artists can teach us about democracy. Could the African American political tradition save American democracy? African Americans have had every reason to doubt America's democratic experiment. Yet African American activists, intellectuals, and artists who have sought to transform the United States into a racially just society have put forward some of the most original and powerful ideas about how to make America live up to its democratic ideals. In The Darkened Light of Faith, Melvin Rogers provides a bold new account of African American political thought through the works and lives of individuals who built this vital tradition, which is urgently needed today.