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050	0	0	_aE184 .A1 _bG554 2021
092			_a305.8 _bG467
100	1		_aGlaude, Eddie S., _cJr., _d1968-
245	1	0	_aBegin again : _bJames Baldwin's America and its urgent lessons for our own / _cEddie S. Glaude Jr.
250			_aCrown trade paperback edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bCrown, _c2021.
300			_axxix, 252 pages ; _c21 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
500			_aIncludes book club guide (pages 241-243) and excerpt from Democracy in Black (pages 245-252).
500			_aIncludes index.
505	0	0	_aIntroduction: Thinking with Jimmy -- The lie -- Witness -- The dangerous road -- The reckoning -- Elsewhere -- Ruins -- Begin again -- Conclusion: A new America -- A book club guide -- Excerpt from: Democracy in Black.
520			_a"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 have been 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 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. -- _cFrom publisher.
600	1	0	_aBaldwin, James, _d1924-1987.
600	1	0	_aTrump, Donald, _d1946-
650		0	_aCivil rights movements _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aRace discrimination _zUnited States _xHistory.
651		0	_aUnited States _xRace relations _xHistory.
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