Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own — The Lie Beneath Progress
What happens when a society changes politically but continues telling itself the same stories about who it is?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. as our lens, this episode explores how national memory, racial identity, political storytelling, and historical myth can influence the possibilities for democratic change.
Glaude draws on James Baldwin to examine what he calls “the lie”: an architecture of stories and assumptions that, in his argument…
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