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The present moment almost demanded Glaude turn to Baldwin, who sat at the intersections of being both queer and Black. Baldwin, who died in 1987, published more than 10 books, and made numerous speeches and media appearances wherein he dissected the scourge of racism in America. “Begin Again” is both call-to-action for Americans today, an era Baldwin would describe as an “after time,” and paean to Baldwin, long recognized as one of our nation’s greatest writers and thinkers. In academia, it also demanded that Glaude deal with the fragility of his white colleagues, which he then had no desire to do. “I could not reconcile his rage with his talk of love,” he writes. Baldwin’s blunt truth telling made him uncomfortable. In his new book “Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own,” Princeton University professor of African American religion, Eddie Glaude, confesses that for many years, he hesitated to engage with James Baldwin’s work.

Black Financial Health Open dropdown menu.Glaude is joined in conversation by Robert Jones, Jr., creator of the social justice social media community Son of Baldwin and author of the highly acclaimed debut novel The Prophets. 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. 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.

McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University and author of Democracy in Black, presents the paperback edition of his prize-winning Begin Again, 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. presents Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our OwnĮddie S.