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Glaude, Eddie S., Jr., 1968-
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Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.
Trump, Donald, 1946-
Race discrimination -- United States -- History.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History.
BCALA Awards.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
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Glaude, Eddie S., Jr., 1968-
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.
Trump, Donald, 1946-
Race discrimination -- United States -- History.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History.
BCALA Awards.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
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Begin again : James Baldwin's America and its urgent lessons for our own / Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
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Glaude, Eddie S., Jr., 1968-
Crown, 2020.
Call #:
305
.800973
G552b
Subjects
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.
Trump, Donald, 1946-
Race discrimination -- United States -- History.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History.
BCALA Awards.
United States -- Race relations -- History.
ISBN:
9780525575320 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xxix, 239 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Summary:
"James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the Civil Rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. In the era of Trump, what can we learn from his struggle? "Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again." --James Baldwin We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., in the after times, when the promise of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America were challenged by the election of Donald Trump, a racist president whose victory represents yet another failure of America to face the lies it tells itself about race. We have been here before: For James Baldwin, the after times came in the wake of the Civil Rights movement, when a similar attempt to compel a national confrontation with the truth was answered with the murders of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. In these years, spanning from the publication of The Fire Next Time in 1963 to that of No Name in the Street in 1972, Baldwin was transformed into a more overtly political writer, a change that came at great professional and personal cost. But from that journey, Baldwin emerged with a sense of renewed purpose about the necessity of pushing forward in the face of disillusionment and despair. In the story of Baldwin's crucible, Glaude suggests, we can find hope and guidance through our own after times, this Trumpian era of shattered promises and white retrenchment. Mixing biography--drawn partially from newly uncovered interviews--with history, memoir, and trenchant analysis of our current moment, Begin Again is Glaude's attempt, following Baldwin, to bear witness to the difficult truth of race in America today. It is at once a searing exploration that lays bare the tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we all must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America."--From publisher.
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Winner of the BCALA Literary Award for Non-Fiction, 2021.
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