Eddie Glaude Jr.

I was passing by and saw a black person on CSPAN. His name is Eddie Glaude Jr. He is releasing a book called "In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America." Othe than being the author to this book he is also a Princeton University professor of religious studies. I'll be looking for the book this weekend.





“Eddie Glaude is poised to become the leading intellectual voice of our generation, raising questions that make us reexamine the assumptions we hold by expanding our inventory of ideas.”—Tavis Smiley

“Glaude is a leading young African American intellectual who has a fine historical sense but is not shackled by the past. He is critical of the blind spots of the classical pragmatists for their failure to deal with the problem of racism. But here he presents an exciting interpretation of pragmatism, revealing the way Dewey combines a profound sense of tragic choices with a passionate commitment to how ordinary folk can further genuine democratic practices. With deft eloquence he shows how this pragmatic orientation clarifies key issues for understanding the past and contemporary politics of Black America.”—Richard J. Bernstein

“Eddie Glaude is the towering public intellectual of his generation. He also is a superb scholar and academic pioneer in his profound synthesis of American pragmatism, African American thought, and religious studies. There is simply no one else like him emerging on the intellectual scene!”—Cornel West

Just click here and go to an excerpt from the book.
Check out his blog here
If you want to buy his book go here.
Listen to the audio from when he as on Tavis Smiley here.