ABOUT THAT INNOCENCE…
Mar 09, 2021
4 minutes
BY RICHARD ERNSBERGER JR.
Eddie S. Glaude Jr., James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, is the author of Democracy in Black and Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own (Crown, 2020), an expression of anguish at American racial recidivism viewed through Baldwin’s life and works.
I have been reading and teaching Baldwin for more than 20 years. I think he is the most insightful writer we have ever produced on the vexing issue of race and democracy. His later works, especially , revealed his struggles with the nation’s equal-rights betrayals. He
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