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\n\nBegin Again: James Baldwin's America and its Urgent L essons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
\n&ldquo\;Not eve
rything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost\, it can only be abdicated.
If one refuses abdication\, one begins again.&rdquo\;&mdash\;James Baldwi
n
\;
Begin Again \;is one of the great books on James B
aldwin and a powerful reckoning with America&rsquo\;s ongoing failure to c
onfront the lies it tells itself about race. Just as in Baldwin&rsquo\;s &
ldquo\;after times\,&rdquo\; argues Eddie S. Glaude Jr.\, when white Ameri
cans met the civil rights movement&rsquo\;s call for truth and justice wit
h blind rage and the murders of movement leaders\, so in our moment were t
he 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&mdash\;drawn partially from new
ly uncovered Baldwin interviews&mdash\;with history\, memoir\, and poignan
t analysis of our current moment to reveal the painful cycle of Black resi
stance and white retrenchment. As Glaude bears witness to the difficult tr
uth of racism&rsquo\;s continued grip on the national soul\, \;Begin A
gain \;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.