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*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* 'A simply wonderful book' PHILIPPE SANDS 'Begin Again is that rare thing: an instant classic' PANKAJ MISHRA 'Incredibly moving and stirring' DIANA EVANS America is at a crossroads. Drawing insight and inspiration from Baldwin's writings, Glaude suggests we can find hope and guidance through an era of shattered promises and white retrenchment. Seamlessly combining biography with history, memoir and trenchant analysis of our moment, Begin Again bears witness to the difficult truth of race in America. 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 more just future. 'An essayistic marvel . . . deeply personal and yet immensely readable' SARA COLLINS, GUARDIAN 'An urgent, deeply interesting book' RACHEL COOKE, OBSERVER Winner of the Stowe Prize 2021 Shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2021
No other story in the Bible has fired the imaginations of African
Americans quite like that of Exodus. Its tale of suffering and the
journey to redemption offered hope and a sense of possibility to
people facing seemingly insurmountable evil.
Since the first African American denomination was established in Philadelphia in 1818, churches have gone beyond their role as spiritual guides in African American communities and have served as civic institutions, spaces for education, and sites for the cultivation of individuality and identities in the face of limited or non-existent freedom. In this Very Short Introduction, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. explores the history and circumstances of African American religion through three examples: conjure, African American Christianity, and African American Islam. He argues that the phrase "African American religion " is meaningful only insofar as it describes how through religion, African Americans have responded to oppressive conditions including slavery, Jim Crow apartheid, and the pervasive and institutionalized discrimination that exists today. This bold claim frames his interpretation of the historical record of the wide diversity of religious experiences in the African American community. He rejects the common tendency to racialize African American religious experiences as an inherent proclivity towards religiousness and instead focuses on how religious communities and experiences have developed in the African American community and the context in which these developments took place.
Believing that African American religious studies has reached a crossroads, Cornel West and Eddie Glaude seek, in this landmark anthology, to steer the discipline into the future. Arguing that the complexity of beliefs, choices, and actions of African Americans need not be reduced to expressions of black religion, West and Glaude call for more careful reflection on the complex relationships of African American religious studies to conceptions of class, gender, sexual orientation, race, empire, and other values that continue to challenge our democratic ideals.
In this provocative book, Eddie S. Glaude Jr., one of our nation's
rising young African American intellectuals, makes an impassioned
plea for black America to address its social problems by recourse
to experience and with an eye set on the promise and potential of
the future, rather than the fixed ideas and categories of the past.
Central to Glaude's mission is a rehabilitation of philosopher John
Dewey, whose ideas, he argues, can be fruitfully applied to a
renewal of African American politics.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Black Power movement
provided the dominant ideological framework through which many
young, poor, and middle-class blacks made sense of their lives and
articulated a political vision for their futures. The legacy of the
movement is still very much with us today in the various strands of
black nationalism that originated from it; we witnessed its power
in the 1995 Million Man March, and we see its more ambiguous
effects in the persistent antagonisms among former participants in
the civil rights coalition. Yet despite the importance of the Black
Power movement, very few in-depth, balanced treatments of it exist.
In this provocative book, Eddie S. Glaude Jr. makes an impassioned plea for black America to address its social problems by recourse to experience - and with an eye set on the promise and potential of the future, rather than the fixed ideas and categories of the past. Central to Glaude's mission is a rehabilitation of philosopher John Dewey, whose ideas, he argues, can be fruitfully applied to a renewal of African American politics.According to Glaude, Dewey's pragmatism, when attentive to the darker dimensions of life - or what we often speak of as the blues - can address many of the conceptual problems that plague contemporary African American discourse. How blacks think about themselves, how they imagine their own history, and how they conceive of their own actions can be rendered in ways that escape bad ways of thinking that assume a tendentious political unity among African Americans simply because they are black. Drawing deeply on black religious thought and literature, "In a Shade of Blue" seeks to dislodge such crude and simplistic thinking and replace it with a deeper understanding of and appreciation for black life in all its variety and intricacy. Glaude argues that only when black political leaders acknowledge such complexity can the real-life sufferings of many African Americans be remedied, an argument echoed in the recent rhetoric and optimism of Barack Obama's presidential campaign."In a Shade of Blue" is a remarkable work of political commentary, and to follow its trajectory is to learn how African Americans arrived at this critical moment in their cultural and political history - and to envision where they might head in the twenty-first century.
No other story in the Bible has fired the imaginations of African
Americans quite like that of Exodus. Its tale of suffering and the
journey to redemption offered hope and a sense of possibility to
people facing seemingly insurmountable evil.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Black Power movement
provided the dominant ideological framework through which many
young, poor, and middle-class blacks made sense of their lives and
articulated a political vision for their futures. The legacy of the
movement is still very much with us today in the various strands of
black nationalism that originated from it; we witnessed its power
in the 1995 Million Man March, and we see its more ambiguous
effects in the persistent antagonisms among former participants in
the civil rights coalition. Yet despite the importance of the Black
Power movement, very few in-depth, balanced treatments of it exist.
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