critique

But “Heretic” doesn’t earn, or even appear interested in, that critique.

A new book from Harvard scholar Keidrick Roy, “American Dark Age: Racial Feudalism and the Rise of Black Liberalism,” lays out their pioneering critique of the enduring power of feudalism on American thought, along with a coherent framework of liberal ideas shaped by their individual and collective lived experiences.

Your book draws attention to a group of Black abolitionist writers who sought to explain and critique that gap, and also explore what to do about it.

And how did writers like Hosea Easton critique the workings and construction of this racial feudal order?

Nonetheless, they worked within the existing social and political structure to bore new lines of flight out of it through a process of immanent critique.