Plenty Good Room by Andrew Wilkes

Plenty Good Room by Andrew Wilkes

Plenty Good Room lays out in clear terms the hope of democratic socialism for a world ravaged by intensifying racial capitalism and social injustice. Unleash your ingenuity for systems that offer plenty good room--not for just a few but for all.

Economic inequality yawns as wide as ever. Capitalism is working as it was designed: replicating an uneven balance of power, constraining life chances, and limiting imaginations. Those of us concerned about injustice often confine ourselves to issue-by-issue activism. The end result? Owners, investors, and a politics of inequality win.

But what if there's another way to organize our common life--and what if it's as homegrown as sweet potato pie? What if we could become moral engineers who co-create the world we all deserve?

Plenty Good Roomhelps readers understand Black Christian socialism, a stream of the Black radical tradition, from the perspective of a Brooklyn pastor and political scientist's civic awakening. As the former director of the Drum Major Institute, founded by America's most famous democratic socialist, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Andrew Wilkes mounts a challenge to the endless greed, inequality, and profiteering of racial capitalism.

Tugging on the threads of history and scripture and pointing to the work of Black radicals like W. E. B. Du Bois, Rev. Addie Wyatt, and Fannie Lou Hamer, Wilkes weaves a narrative of "plenty good room moments": times in which communities and individuals had sufficient resources, human rights, and beauty. He invites us to join a movement that a day-laboring Christ initiated as he organized the dispossessed, the disinherited, and those pushed to the edges of society. Wilkes also introduces contemporary efforts pushing for reparations, community ownership, participatory democracy, and solidarity economies. These stories show us that we can create a world of care and reciprocity by envisioning an economy of enough for all--one rooted in justice, equity, and the God whose spirit falls on all flesh.

Wilkes, Andrew: - Who am I? It's a reasonable question! I am a happily married man, I have three brilliant children and an adopted daughter. I also have Autism; I wasn't diagnosed with it until I was in my mid-thirties. The Autism has been a little bit of a stumbling block, prior to being diagnosed I was medicated for something else and that made journeying into the world even harder. I mentioned I was married, I am, to a wonderful woman called Emma! Without her I wouldn't be the man I am today, and I certainly would not have my children. Emma has helped me through a great deal of woes, from depression to severe panic attacks that have left me physically unable to move. What I do? I spend a fair bit of my time doting on my family. I think for all of us, our children are the reason we get up in the morning - the other I do is write. I'd rather not stick to any single Genre, I believe that there is an awesome story waiting in my mind for each of them. most social media platforms. Twitter @Drew_Lee_Wilkes Insta @andrew_lee_wilkes Facebook @Drew.lee.wilkes Drew

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ISBN 13	9781506491516
ISBN 10	1506491510
Title	Plenty Good Room
Author	Andrew Wilkes
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	1517 Media
Year published	2024-06-25
Number of pages	179
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