{"product_id":"democracys-reconstruction-lawrie-balfour-9780195377293","title":"Democracy's Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W.E.B. Du Bois","description":"In \u003cem\u003eDemocracy's Reconstruction\u003c\/em\u003e, the latest addition to Cathy Cohen and Fredrick Harris's \u003cem\u003eTransgressing Boundaries\u003c\/em\u003e series, noted political theorist Lawrie Balfour challenges a longstanding tendency in political theory: the disciplinary division that separates political theory proper from the study of black politics. Political theory rarely engages with black political thinkers, despite the fact that the problem of racial inequality is central to the entire enterprise of American political theory. To address this lacuna, she focuses on the political thought of W.E.B. Du Bois, particularly his longstanding concern with the relationship between slavery's legacy and the prospects for democracy in the era he lived in. Balfour utilizes Du Bois as an intellectual resource, applying his method of addressing contemporary problems via the historical prism of slavery to address some of the fundamental racial divides and inequalities in contemporary America. By establishing his theoretical method to study these historical connections, she positions Du Bois's work in the political theory canon--similar to the status it already has in history, sociology, philosophy, and literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lawrie Balfour\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019537729X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195377293\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/22\/2011 pg. 81","brand":"Lawrie Balfour","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43946280943871,"sku":"9780195377293","price":83.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a26bfdcf-3734-4da8-ac3e-2e12a9bb40df.jpg?v=1681512342","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/democracys-reconstruction-lawrie-balfour-9780195377293","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}