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Lewis Gordon on the Trayvon Martin Case

Posted on July 20, 2013 by nbromell

With cold fury, Lewis Gordon analyzes the “injustice of justice” in the Zimmerman verdict.

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The Book

Published by Oxford University Press and available at Amazon: The Time Is Always Now: Black Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy.

"In this work of enormous breadth, depth, and imagination, Nick Bromell makes what may be the most original contribution to political theory in the past decade. How important that in this age of alleged color blindness, Bromell has the vision and the chutzpah to turn to African American thought—ideas born of struggle, anchored in questions of dignity, human relationships, and faith—in order to revitalize American democracy. And as its title proclaims, the work is a matter of great urgency."

—Robin D.G. Kelley
Gary B. Nash Professor of U.S. History, University of California at Los Angeles, and author of
Freedom Dreams

Advance Notices

“In this fine book, Nick Bromell’s aim is to think through the ontological, epistemological, ethical and political registers of racial inequality, prejudice, and domination and to unleash the powers of imagination and vision on behalf of a new, more just social order and a transformed public philosophy. In the process, he enacts the 'now' on behalf of which he writes, with empathic and imaginative readings of major texts of political theory and literature, oriented by the worlds of African American letters and critical race theory. Synthetic and innovative, political, historical and literary, The Time is Always Now will interest anyone who cares about US racial politics, 19th- and 20th-century American literature, democratic theory and black political thought.”

—Bonnie Honig
Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media, and Political Science, Brown University, and author of Antigone, Interrupted

Other Works by Nick Bromell

Books
By the Sweat of the Brow: Literature and Labor in Antebellum America

Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psychedelics in the 1960s

Articles
"Faith-Based Politics: Walking with Malcolm X and Wittgenstein"

"Democratic Indignation: Black American Thought and the Politics of Dignity"

"W.E.B. Du Bois and the Enlargement of Democratic Theory"

"A 'Voice from the Enslaved': The Origins of Frederick Douglass's Political Philosophy of Democracy"

"Reading Democratically: Pedagogies of Difference and Practices of Listening in The House of Mirth and Passing"

Essays
"Scooter and Me: Professing Liberal Doubt in an Age of Fundamentalist Fervor"

"The Block"

"Family Secrets: A Cold War Boyhood, at the Front"

About Nick Bromell

Nick Bromell brings political theory and historical scholarship to bear on current issues and debates, especially those that swirl around race in the United States.

He is the author of three books and is working on a fourth, which deals with the political thought of Frederick Douglass. 

His articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in American Quarterly, American Literary History, American Literature, American Music, The Boston Review, Harper's, Raritan, Political Theory, The Boston Globe, The Sewanee Review, The Georgia Review, The American Scholar, Fortune, The New York Times, New England Monthly, and on-line at Alternet, Exquisite Corpse, and Salon.

Democracy

  • Center for Democracy and Citizenship
  • Center for Popular Democracy

Economics

  • On the Commons
  • Popular Economics

Movement Building

  • Center for Popular Democracy

Progressive Voices

  • Lewis R. Gordon
  • On the Commons
  • Think Progress
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