TY - BOOK AU - Bromell,Nicholas Knowles TI - The time is always now: black political thought and the transformation of US democracy SN - 9780199367771 (ebook) : AV - E185.615 .B727 2013 U1 - 323.1196073 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - African Americans KW - Politics and government KW - Philosophy KW - African American intellectuals KW - Political activity KW - History KW - Liberalism KW - United States KW - Equality KW - Political culture N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - There have been many answers on offer for liberalism's anemic approval ratings, but as this book shows, we may have been looking in the wrong places and using the wrong defenses for liberal democracy. Focusing on the long history of black political participation and protest, this book contends that it offers object lessons for liberalism UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199973439.001.0001 ER -