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A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society
America’s great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, to the disaster visited upon poor and middle-class black families by the Great Recession, it is clear that black America faces an emergency—at the very moment the election of the first black president has prompted many to believe we’ve solved America’s race problem.
Democracy in Black is Eddie S. Glaude Jr.'s impassioned response. Part manifesto, part history, part memoir, it argues that we live in a country founded on a “value gap”—with white lives valued more than others—that still distorts our politics today. Whether discussing why all Americans have racial habits that reinforce inequality, why black politics based on the civil-rights era have reached a dead end, or why only remaking democracy from the ground up can bring real change, Glaude crystallizes the untenable position of black America--and offers thoughts on a better way forward. Forceful in ideas and unsettling in its candor, Democracy In Black is a landmark book on race in America, one that promises to spark wide discussion as we move toward the end of our first black presidency.
- Sales Rank: #15895 in Books
- Published on: 2016-01-12
- Released on: 2016-01-12
- Format: Deckle Edge
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.60" h x .80" w x 6.60" l, 1.25 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 288 pages
Review
“Eddie Glaude speaks some hard truths in this important new book. Glaude is the fiercest of thinkers, and this book is a brilliant and crucial prescription for necessary change.” —Henry Louis Gates Jr.
“This powerful and timely book should shape the framework for a post-Obama America—a bold rejection of black liberal politics and a prophetic call for a revolution of value that reinvigorates our democratic life with imagination and courage.”
—Cornel West
“Democracy in Black tells necessary truths about the state of race and justice in America and challenges us to embrace genuinely -- not merely rhetorically -- the revolution of values preached by Dr. King.” —Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
“Eddie Glaude has written a book that challenges and demands as well as one that informs and inspires. This is a very important book, I am better for having read it and even more motivated in my work and mission.” –U.S. Senator Cory Booker
“Eloquent and impassioned, insightful and factual, Democracy in Black powerfully reimagines black politics and presents strategies for remaking American democracy.” —Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton University and author of The History of White People.
“Democracy in Black is an urgent, clear-eyed manifesto. It proves not only that Black Lives Matter, but Black social movements matter if the nation ever hopes to lift the veil of racism and long shadow of slavery.” –Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
“Eddie Glaude writes compellingly of the collective moral and intellectual failures locking Americans into a repetitive “human value gap.” This book documents why and how race remains our ultimate, even dedicated, civic irrationality.” –Patricia J. Williams, author of Seeing a Color-blind Future
“Democracy in Black tells a powerful story about democracy in action in the streets of Ferguson. People should read it and be transformed by Eddie Glaude’s call for a revolution of values. I hope it is read widely.” —James H. Cone, Union Theological Seminary
“Democracy in Black puts a Toni Morrison question to a nation ‘between worlds’: ‘Wanna fly?’ Listen up: ‘You got to give up the shit that weighs you down.’ Easier said than done. Read all about it. I did. Now I’m thinking about it all.” —Robert P. Moses, President, The Algebra Project, Inc.
“He proves his point cogently… with more than enough documentation to move the argument along this new and painful track…This is every bit as important a book as Coates’ more personal account: essential reading.” --Booklist
"A book for the ages...one of the most imaginative, daring books of the 21st century" --Los Angeles Times
About the Author
EDDIE S. GLAUDE JR. is a professor at Princeton University, teaching in the religion department and the Department of African American Studies.
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32 of 36 people found the following review helpful.
A Tour De Force
By Read-A-Lot
Professor Eddie Glaude Jr., of Princeton comes out firing on all cylinders in this book. He really has his pulse on the race situation that continues to plague America and has come up with some thoughts that I'm sure will become part of the prescript of any discussions concerning race. One such idea is the "value gap", which Eddie describes as, "...(the belief that white people are valued more than others) and racial habits (the things we do, without thinking, that sustain the value gap) undergird racial inequality, and how white and black fears block the way to racial justice in this country."
"We talk about the achievement gap in education or the wealth gap between white Americans and other groups, but the value gap reflects something more basic: that no matter our stated principles or how much progress we think we’ve made, white people are valued more than others in this country, and that fact continues to shape the life chances of millions of Americans. The value gap is in our national DNA."
This is an interesting new angle in which to view the issue of racism, i.e., white supremacy. When you frame white supremacy in those terms, there certainly isn't much to argue with there. Clearly white people and white lives are valued more than others in America. In support of this "value gap" theory he quotes from Dr. King,
"that in this country the idea of racial equality remains 'a loose expression for improvement.'"
And by the way his understanding of Dr. King is superb, many try to lock King into a dream state, but if you listen to and read King from 1967 to the time of his assassination, you would think of him as a totally different person than the I have a dream King. And the radical King is rarely mentioned or praised in print, public or schools. Eddie is unafraid to raise the radical King, though I'm not of the belief that courage is needed in doing this, truth is truth. There is a chapter in the book titled Restless Sleep After King's Dream. I digress.
But here is what the author is attempting to convey in this book, "Most Americans see inequality—and the racial habits that give it life—as aberrations, ways we fail to live up to the idea of America. But we’re wrong. Inequality and racial habits are part of the American Idea. They are not just a symptom of bad, racist people who fail to live up to pristine ideals. We are, in the end, what we do." Is that not correct? We all have heard the arguments of reverse racism, I'm not a racist, Black people need to take responsibility, etc. etc.
Eddie does a fantastic take down of these rhetorical devices while clearly establishing that "Our democratic principles do not exist in a space apart from our national commitment to white supremacy. They have always been bound tightly together, sharing bone and tissue." Eddie provides several anecdotes that intelligibly illustrate the "value gap" and how it effects the lives of Black people.
President Obama takes a heap of criticism from Eddie and even those who disagree will find Eddie's arguments logical, though I did detect a bit of contradiction. He also takes to task the modern civil rights leaders and their failure to move the needle. His definition of liberal is quite different from what usually comes to mind and challenges readers to redefine their own definitions. So what of solutions? Eddie offers up, a revolution of values and a more strident democracy as the way forward. "A revolution of value upends the belief that white people are more valued than others....It involves three basic components: (1) a change in how we view government; (2) a change in how we view black people; and (3) a change in how we view what ultimately matters to us as Americans." He has great respect and admiration for the Forward Together moral movement as well as the #blacklivesmatter campaign.
Perhaps his boldest and most controversial recommendation is the "blank-out" campaign. A trip to the presidential ballot box in 2016, but instead of choosing the lesser of two evils that no doubt imprisons us to the status quo, we write in none of the above, thereby calling for a new democracy while still exercising the franchise to quell the screaming crowd of citizens who instinctively cry, "you must vote." I'm sure he will be roundly criticized for this suggestion.
Though I have some minor quibbles, none worth mentioning, this is a 5star effort.
The book is not at all academic, which in this case I mean as a compliment and
he supplies plenty of analogies to help readers grasp his explanations, these analogies make an already accessible book that much more of an easygoing read. Surely you will see this book on many year end "best" lists.
26 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
Would America have been America Without her Negro people? DuBois
By Terry Teacher
This book resonated with me on so many levels. The first being I’m not crazy/out of touch - someone else share my thoughts (a scholar even). The author, Glaude, unfolds masterfully the true condition of Black Americans in America; he pulls no punches. This book is so informative. I found myself reading this book every chance I got.
The author’s verbiage/break down of the “value gap” - how some men and women are valued less than others because of the color of their skin - and how this gap is infused in our so called ‘democratic’ system, as well as ‘racial habits’ (things we do to sustain this gap) could be considered the theme of this book. This value gaps informs all decisions -employment, educ, housing, and policy etc. To quote the author, ‘…black America has experienced and is experiencing a depression…more like the symptoms of a national congenital disease than the flu.’
The author illuminates how we like to think of our nation as the chosen moral nation (‘shining city on the hill’ Ronald Reagan) and how our collective active forgetting/dismembering determines the kind of story we tell ourselves. We tend to forget all the hypocrisy this country was built on as well as how much of Black history dealt with ‘waging a relentless war against white supremacy’.
The book reports on heart wrenching personal stories of the effect on the foreclosure crisis that hit African Americans (AA) more than anyone else – not only monetarily but also mentally – entire family breakdowns and more than likely will be broke down for generations not to mention how we’re raising our children with the belief that their lives don’t matter.
The author breaks down and compares the traditional/liberal with the conservative AA politician and how they pretty much all go through lip service with no real change occurring in the AA community – not even attempting to close the value gap…. ‘Standing by silently as this economic devastation swallowed black America’. Our President is not excused from these list of politicians – ‘AA have suffered tremendously on Obama’s watch’. I wholeheartedly agree that ‘changing policies and addressing structural racism are the first steps toward undoing our racial habits.’ Initiatives such as ‘My Brothers Keeper’ are Pie in the sky programs.
So called black leaders/TV pundits/organizations are also called out and reflected on in a very real way – from Rev Al to DeRay Mckesson; again, the author pulls no punches. Some of the facts the book reveals about these individuals and the “racial theatre” they go through will leave your mouth open. Information on the young leaders of today (including DeRay and Netta) that I’m so proud of, and their so called confrontive (I call highly effective) tactics as well as current movements such as #BLACKLIVESMATTER are reported on.
I really appreciated all the real and meaningful quotes from MLK (ones you never hear), James Baldwin and DuBois.
“The value gap is in our national DNA.”
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
Helpful, but Painful, Read
By Steve Cavallaro
Like many people, I find discussions about race difficult. It is hard to build up the trust to speak honestly without judgment. It is awkward and difficult. So when I saw this book available for review I thought I'd get a copy, as if Eddie Glaude Jr. and I were sitting across the table from one another in a beer-less summit of sorts.
There are many good things about this book. He tells it like he honestly sees it (which means it can be painfully honest). Politically, he doesn't portray Democrats as perfect, or even President Obama, not Republicans as all evil (though he disagrees strongly with many policies). We will get to that later.
The strength of the book, for me, was chapters 2-4. He attempts to get to the heart of the long-term, on-going race issues in this nation. This has to do with the value gap, racial habits and white fear. From the beginning this nation has valued blacks less than whites. The end of slavery hasn't ended it. The end of Jim Crow laws hasn't ended it. It is a matter of the heart that is worked out in society. I think some of his examples are flawed. For instance, on page 31 he addresses the diseases that kill blacks at a higher rate than whites. But heart disease, cancer and AIDS get plenty of press and research money. It isn't like these diseases are ignored because they kill blacks. But I agree with him that there is a value gap. Generally speaking, black lives don't seem to matter as much in our society. The rates of incarcerated blacks is not just about poverty and crime, but also a flawed criminal justice system.
His discussion of disremembering is particularly helpful. This is the collective memory of a society which leaves out some of the ugly realities of our history or particular events. We do this, as a culture, to think the best about ourselves. He doesn't get to its root in pride, but this is something not often discussed.
"When we disremember an event, an egregious moment in the past, we shape how we live in the present. ... Disremembering is active forgetting. ... What we put in and leave out of our stories tells us something about who we are."
As a part of this, even when a challenging aspect of our past is brought us, we tend to objectify it. Those people are bad, but we rarely, if ever, think "I could do that too. If I were there I may very well have been one of the perpetrators."
The little white boy across the street from him learned on day one that he was not supposed to play with black children. We all pick up unspoken ideas about race. "Racial habits are formed by the outcomes we see in the world rather than by the complex processes that produced those outcomes." With so much poverty in the African-American community, many assume that they are lazy. He talks about "opportunity hoarding" in which a majority culture tends to keep the good stuff. We are often blind to the "way social networks reproduce inequality: white individuals benefit from being part of white social groups." He talks about how we often get jobs through social networks, but think we "earn it." Of the 14 jobs I've had over the years (at times working more than one) all but 2 were the result of knowing someone. When we consider it, that is astounding. This points to the need for internships for minorities so they can develop a social network AND the skills to get better jobs.
One of those habits we pick up is that of masking, particularly how we feel about racial matters. We don't want to talk honestly about race at Starbucks, or anywhere else. Blacks are afraid of being labeled the angry black man, and whites are afraid of being labeled a clueless racist. Additionally, we participate in the racial theater led by prominent civil rights leaders, and even our President. A theater that doesn't actually resolve anything, but seems to just keep picking at the wounds.
"White fear is the general frame of mind that black people are dangerous, not only to white individuals because they are prone to criminal behavior, but to the overall well-being of our society."
White fear is a political fear, and an economic fear. I recall as a young person being afraid of losing out due to affirmative action and minority scholarships (which I hope and pray my kids get!). It is largely about self-interest. Those in the lower economic or social ladders tend to fear those above, and those in the middle and higher tend to fear those below supplanting them. This has been common in our culture with new immigrants (Italians, Polish etc), but African-Americans have persistently been part of that perceived threat while other groups have moved up the ladder and began to share in white fear. Political fear "takes fears based in narrow concerns and gives them a more generalized fear."
In addition to the Great Black Depression (the recession hit black communities far harder than white ones), we've seen the dissolution of the black social structures that have enabled black people to think and grow in relative safety (black churches, colleges, press etc.). In some ways they are losing their voice.
His chapter on President Obama and the Black Liberals is a good history of black political thought and groups in America. He discusses the shifts, and failures. Ultimately they have capitulated to white supremacy and the lie of "color-blindness". It is the idea that if we just get the right person in power the plight of the African-American community will end. The liberal politician becomes a messiah figure. Don't worry, white conservatives (and liberals) do this too. He notes the failure to hold politicians accountable as part of the problem (this goes far beyond black democratic life).
"The whole business of black politics becomes the political project of black liberals, with their latent desire for the disappearance of black America. Looks like we have been accomplices in our own demise after all."
While this book was very helpful for me, I saw some fundamental problems as well. In his book Bloodlines, John Piper notes that for a minority culture everything is seen as a race issue, while for a majority culture nothing is seen as a race issue. There are things that Glaude sees as race issues, or solely as race issues, which may not be. His thinking is reductionistic at times. One example is voter ID laws. He sees this as an attempt to suppress the black vote. My own approval of voter ID laws has to do with addressing voter fraud (but I'd be what he calls a right wing extremist). I see room for compromise in how the laws are written so that the black vote is not suppressed (free gov't IDs for people on welfare for instance). I don't want to exclude any citizens from voting (black, Asian, Hispanic etc.). I do want to prevent people from voting more than once, and from non-citizens from exercising the rights of citizens.
His solutions don't seem compelling to me, though at times I am also tempted to vote "none of the above" too. As someone who teaches religion, I'd hope he would bring some theology into play. No, I'm not talking simply about forgiveness. For instance, the answer to the value gap is the imago dei. He seems to have no objective reason for our equality, a problem expressed in the existential ethics of Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia and other places. It is not simply a white/black thing but one that plagues every culture.
This was a very helpful and insightful book despite its flaws. It is a book I'd recommend to others to help better understand the history of race relations and politics in this country. While I'll disagree with him on a number of points, I'm better for reading it. It would be nice to sit across from a table from him, over beer, even if we raise our voices at times.
(I received a copy of this book from the publisher for the purposes of review.)
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