5/25/2023 0 Comments Books by eddie glaude jr![]() ![]() ![]() KING: Years after those early encounters with Baldwin's writing in grad school, Glaude started to love his work and understand it differently. He wants to say that we can't think about Black life as just simply deficit. GLAUDE: There is a sense in which Baldwin is rejecting a kind of social realist understanding of Black life. ![]() Baldwin too was interested in the experiences of Black Americans beyond the trauma that racism caused them. And that lie allowed white Americans to think they were innocent. KING: James Baldwin wrote that the United States was built on a lie, that we were a free and equal society. You know, not only was I having to deal with what he was doing to me on the inside, I had to deal with them. EDDIE GLAUDE JR: When we read Baldwin, all hell would break loose. ![]()
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