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REPARATIONS, LEADERSHIP, AND DEMOCRACY

A Comment on Balfour and Gooding-Williams

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2011

Tommie Shelby
Tommie Shelby*
Affiliation:
Department of African and African American Studies and Department of Philosophy, Harvard University
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Professor Tommie Shelby, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. E-mail: tshelby@fas.harvard.edu
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Lawrie Balfour and Robert Gooding-Williams have written superb books. Reading Du Bois's texts creatively and carefully, both treat Du Bois as a living political thinker, someone we can learn from and profitably argue with and whose thought is relevant to contemporary political theory. There is more in these books that I could praise and much in them that I agree with, but I will focus my remarks on areas of disagreement.

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Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , Fall 2011 , pp. 395 - 399
Copyright
Copyright © W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research 2011

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