We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For — Why Democracy Can't Be Outsourced
What happens when democratic responsibility becomes concentrated in the people we call leaders?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. as our lens, this investigation examines the relationship between leadership, self-trust, historical inheritance, and democratic agency.
Glaude develops the idea of Black democratic perfectionism through encounters with Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Ella Baker, John Dewey, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others. Rather than treating prophecy and…
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