Begin Again by Eddie S Jr Glaude

Begin Again by Eddie S Jr Glaude

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same.--Time

James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. What can we learn from his struggle in our own moment?

One of the Best Books of the Year: Time, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune - One of Esquire's Best Biographies of All Time - Winner of the Stowe Prize - Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice

Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.--James Baldwin

Begin Again is one of the great books on James Baldwin and a powerful reckoning with America's ongoing failure to confront the lies it tells itself about race. Just as in Baldwin's after times, argues Eddie S. Glaude Jr., when white Americans met the civil rights movement's call for truth and justice with blind rage and the murders of movement leaders, so in our moment were the Obama presidency and the birth of Black Lives Matter answered with the ascendance of Trump and the violent resurgence of white nationalism.

In these brilliant and stirring pages, Glaude finds hope and guidance in Baldwin as he mixes biography--drawn partially from newly uncovered Baldwin interviews--with history, memoir, and poignant analysis of our current moment to reveal the painful cycle of Black resistance and white retrenchment. As Glaude bears witness to the difficult truth of racism's continued grip on the national soul, Begin Again is a searing exploration of the tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America.

EDDIE S. GLAUDE JR. is the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies and the chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, African American Religion: A Very Short Introduction, In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, and Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America.

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ISBN 13	9780525575320
ISBN 10	0525575324
Title	Begin Again
Author	Eddie S Jr Glaude
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2020-06-30
Number of pages	288
Prizes	Winner of BCALA Literary Award 2021, Winner of Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters - Nonfiction 2020, Winner of Stowe Prize 2021, Short-listed for Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice 2020, Short-listed for Hooks National Book Award 2020
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