BEGIN AGAIN: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
by Glaude, Eddie S., Jr
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- Hardbound in very good condition in a very good dust jacket.
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- 0525575324
- ISBN 13
- 9780525575320
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We have been here before: For James Baldwin, these 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 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 endeavor, 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.
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- 32689
- Title
- BEGIN AGAIN: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
- Author
- Glaude, Eddie S., Jr
- Book Condition
- Used - Hardbound in very good condition in a very good dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0525575324
- ISBN 13
- 9780525575320
- Publisher
- Crown
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2020
- Bookseller catalogs
- African Americans;
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