He is chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University and the current president of the American Academy of Religion. His most well-known books, "Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul," and "In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America," take a wide look at black communities and reveal complexities, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for hope. is a scholar who speaks to the black and blue in America. 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.Įddie S. In our own moment, when that confrontation feels more urgently needed than ever, what can we learn from his struggle? Mixing biography-drawn partially from newly uncovered interviews-with history, memoir, and trenchant analysis of our current moment, "Begin Again" is Glaude’s endeavor, following Baldwin, to bear witness to the difficult truth of race in America today. James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race.
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