Begin Again: James Baldwin's America And Its Urgent Lessons For Our Own
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2020
- "In the midst of an ugly Trump regime and a beautiful Baldwin revival, Eddie Glaude has plunged to the profound depths and sublime heights of Baldwin's prophetic challenge to our present-day crisis." -Cornel West
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James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. In our own moment, when that confrontation feels more urgently needed than ever, what can we learn from his struggle?
We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude Jr., in a moment when the struggles of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the election of Donald Trump, a president whose victory represents yet another failure of America to face the lies it tells itself about race. From Charlottesville to the policies of child separation at the border, his administration turned its back on the promise of Obama's presidency and refused to embrace a vision of the country shorn of the insidious belief that white people matter more than others.
We have been here before: for James Baldwin, these after times came in the wake of the civil rights movement, when a similar attempt to compel a national confrontation with the truth was answered with the murders of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. In these years, spanning from the publication of The Fire Next Time in 1963 to that of No Name in the Street in 1972, Baldwin transformed into a more overtly political writer, a change that came at great professional and personal cost. But from that journey, Baldwin emerged with a sense of renewed purpose about the necessity of pushing forward in the face of disillusionment and despair.
In the story of Baldwin's crucible, Glaude suggests, we can find hope and guidance through our own after times, this Trumpian era of shattered promises and white retrenchment. Mixing biography-drawn partially from newly uncovered interviews-with history, memoir, and trenchant analysis of our current moment, Begin Again is Glaude's endeavor, following Baldwin, to bear witness to the difficult truth of race in America today. 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 new America.
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is a scholar who speaks to the black and blue in America. His most well-known books, Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul, and In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America, take a wide look at black communities and reveal complexities, vulnerabilities, and opportunities for hope. He is the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies and chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University.
Cornel R. West is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard Divinity School. He is best known for his classics Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. He is the host with Tricia Rose of a new podcast, The Tight Rope.
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Excellent job by Sister Maya at moderating this lively discussion!
Thank you Maya!
Beyond the brilliance of the book itself, this is a beautiful interaction between student (Glaude) and a proud teacher (West). you can really feel the love in the conversation.
yes, the blinking back of tears as he presents his book and discusses it with his teacher/peer...
What a privilege to be with these three bright, witty, magnanimous artists, listening to them share their love of James Baldwin! Jackie Wilson’s lyric “Your love is lifting me higher than I’ve ever been lifted before.....” is the perfect background to this unique experience. Wouldn’t it have been magical to have spent time with the beloved “Jimmy”?
Praise God that intellectualism is alive and well! My heart is happy, amidst all of this darkness and chaos. Cannot wait for my copy to arrive
Maya Marshall holds her own with the doctors. Thank you for your thoughtful questions, Maya. And thank you Dr. Glaude and Dr. West for your work and your wisdom. This poor white girl from Cleveland, a product of 1950s and 60s racism and segregation, greatly appreciate your work and that of great black women writers, like Audre Lorde, who helped me face my fear and stand strong in the world of academia where elitism can get the best of us if we let it and my own unmasking of white privilege.
James Baldwin's soul is smiling from its scintillating realm...
"Hope must be invented EVERY DAY."
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say that again!
This was beyond needed. Thank you so much. Thank you for bringing clarity and courage to this conversation. So much wisdom.
I’m laughing, I’m crying, I feel like all three are putting into words the feelings and thoughts I haven’t been able to clarify. Thank you so much
James Baldwin is the 2nd man I fell in love with as a young adult. Malcolm X was the 1st :)
There's description by Baldwin of how tenderly Malcolm handled a younger activist in a debate that he oversaw that is very moving. Really rounds out how much of an evolved person with an incredible long view of things that Malcolm was but doesn't get enough credit for.
@@mmarone333 Do you remember where Baldwin makes this description? I'd love to read it.
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Idol worship serves nothing ... Maybe try and Indian next time...
I was on Twitter and came upon a very interesting tweet that states that even today, scholars shy away from speaking about how Baldwin's sexuality informed his writings and life. I would like to hear more about that.
Rec then that you read David Leeming's biography of Baldwin
Wallace Shawn FTW. Brother Glaude and Brother West breaking it down wonderfully. James Baldwin is a force of nature that transcends the boundaries of time...his prose will endure forever.
Please do not ever remove this video. I enjoy going back to this to listen to. Lots of great teaching moments throughout
The type of talks that nourish my soul.
Yes, I am a 'Coltrane woman'. I came to understand what that truly means a few years ago. My life has been the constant manifestation of "hope" and a "Love Supreme" my recently deceased Mom (yes, from Covid) (and whose maiden name is actually "Hope" 😇) tried her best, damn near daily, to get me to recognize. And through this, I reached (and continue to) my hand to lift up others, particularly youth. If only more would do the same. Love beyond words, but in creatively profound actions that empower from a values and ethics practice. God bless you Professor West for the years of affirmations, Dr. Glaude for acknowledging grief and regret in this pandemic, the teachings of Baldwin, and Haymarket for your platform. 🙏🏼✊🏽🖤
RIP Mommy 5/5/20 & Dad 5/14/20. ❤
James Baldwin helped me understand how loving another man openly is a strength, how race goes to the core of American identity and how we are all storytellers.
I do not have a language to descripe this magnificent conversation.
Amin brother.
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Powerful! Thank you. "Let's begin in love and end there." Jericho Brown
After over a year, still blown away. Still hoping to bring Professor Glaude to New Orleans in conversation with Dr. Michael Gorra.
Genius! Thank you for this. As a young black man this shows me what I need to focus on!
Cornel West is DA GOAT.
Very fun and insightful conversation, thanks for hosting!
So thoughtful and insightful. I think I’m going to eat my iPad to digest my digital Begin Again all at once, as well as to keep these profound ideas on love- what I consider to be my ultimate resource. Thank you! Simply amazing!
Thank you! Bless you! We need you! From a grateful old Jewish guy in Arizona.
I'm am honor to still see & hear this group of humane. to gather the rest of humans, just continue to speak Truth.
Wonderful to listen to this, so glad it was recorded! Thank you so much for hosting !
This was amazing. Thank you.
Grateful to be a student of the streets with Professor West as one of my fave teachers. Thank you, bless you for making this conversation free for folks to listen, learn, be inspired, shed some grief, empower and move forward together! God Bless!
Ms. Maya. Thank you for your graciousness. You conducted that interview with such poise, intelligence and preparedness. Great job!
"Hope must be invented everyday." I'll never forget that.
Everything about this was amazing. I should have been sleeping two hours ago and I'm still up watching this, not regretting a single moment. Eddie Glaude and Cornel West's relationship as dissertation advisor, student, and now friends is beautiful.
Great conversation and very enlightening on a national treasure (Mr. James Baldwin).
I love you all! This is of a force beyond healing!
The measure of a people rests in how their poor fare.
I knew Obama was trouble when talking about Hope and Change he clearly was talking solely about the Middle Class.
Good conversation!! Dr. West ❤️🙏🏾
EXCELLENT!!!! Some can't, this country can't be who/what it aspires to be because they/it have to lie.
Wonderful conversation. Ordered the book
This conversation and content was amazing. Thanks for sharing, I'm ordering the book now!
Thank you for this awesome exchange. Love felt throughout.
This was so enjoyable. Totally stimulated! Just ordered "Begin Again"
What a great dialogue. Professor West making way for the next generation.
Such a privilege to experience this electric conversation. The book was magnificent!♥️
This is such a very powerful conversation !!!
Amazing. And just now I purchased the book
Mary .Klam I haven't bought it yet but it's high up on my wants list.
Beautiful and nourishing discussion -- so appreciated and _needed_ at this moment. *Thank you.*
It’s an honor to listen to this video!
Maya Marshall 🙌🏾 👑
I loved this so much
excellent lesson. Must read the book
This event is like sitting at the feet of Plato or Aime.
Excellent. Thank you!
Excellent job moderating Maya.
Genuinely excited to have this Book enroute
My top 3 all in one discussion!
Going to order the book, cheers from the Netherlands. The good people need to fight back.
It'd be great to see Dr. West and Dr. Glaude discuss "The Souls of Black Folk." It'd be nice to hear an in-depth discussion "The Veil" and "Double Consciousness."
This was a joy to witness...
most epic line: “millennials, gen z-ers and they smoking woos, they’re getting ZOOTED.”
I wish I had more LIKE buttons
he said "Black unity is not Black solidarity" and I shouted
Tell us more
Thank y’all so much for this
that's dude from clueless, never thought I'd see him with the great Cornel West. Life's a trip.
"black people are human beings." -Cornel West.
so profound, it actually changed my life
I am ashamed to say that as an African woman living in the United States for the past 30 years, I was completely ignorant of the plight of African-Americans, and did not start to educate myself until after George Floyd’s death.
It’s better late than never.
Thank you for the great work that you’ve been doing.
Do Haymarket books have an ebook app because a lot of elderly have reading problems with sights small letters why I'm still with Amazon to read. It is adjustable letter size.
Dr. West is a modern day Sage.
Absolutely!!!!! That is our truth, hope every single day.
Hope!! Yes..Good mourning heartache....
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
How can you build right relationships with a fragmented and selfishness that is programmed in our minds, and more than that how to go beyond images that stored in our minds, including our own image. We may work for common good, if we can see that our self interest is included in common interest, so we must act in interest humanity first, maybe there we can see the action of Love. But true love cannot be biased, or prejudice, or selfish, and true "Love is a path less land", quote from J. Krishnamurti.
c o r n e l 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
it still amazes me that until about a year ago i never heard about this amazing intellect. why are MLK and Malcolm X so well known in our culture, but not James Baldwin - who i think surpassed his contemporaries when it came to commenting on the racial issues o' his day ? that glaring omission xists also among many o' my friends who should know him - hell they don't know Dr. West or Eddie either...
8:46 start
A Personal Brand misses the point (1:15:00)
i mean, this kind of love here!
That’s what I’m Talking about
That's my teacher professor cornel west, the Socrates of this generation
We are witnessing The Reincarnation of James Baldwin
If we have not been loved we would not have survived.......yes.
0:30 is that vizzini
"if you promise your elder brother that you will not believe what the world says about you, I promise you that I will not betray you"
This caught my attention because I once told my father, all choked up, that I didn't want to know who his most favored child was. This may have hurt him, but I didn't want to be shaped by his opinions of us. It's hard enough just following your own lead.
RESPONSIBILITY 😉😉😉
The fact of China has changed the design.
Chris Hedges disparages hope and sees in hope escapism. That just proves Brother Hedges is not Black.
Brother Hedges does not need hope because he is not hopeless.
To understand true hope, ask the hopeless.
Ask James Baldwin,
for whom hope is a verb, not a drug,
something to be practiced, not ingested
Hope must be invented everyday.
As someone who loves Chris Hedges, thank you for this.
That is so deep..so devastatingly true. I admire Chris Hedges' work & understand his deep pathos given his experiences working in desperate, war-torn areas, but to be Black in America is something that falls outside his understanding..alwayd felt that Chris needs to listen to Jazz, Blues & Hip Hop to get a taste - a FEEL- of what being Black in America is like. Music played a critical role in Baldwin's philosophy & artistic output.
What!!!
17:35 was the most wholesome moment we all needed. brought a huge smile to my face.
This is what it was like to sit at the feet of Plato and Aime Cisaire.
What's up with West and the hand gesture
He might be frat.
Be healthy 🌿
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I think a big problem is Americans have no concept of history. There is no understanding of how things got to where they are today because it occurred over multiple generations, and most Americans, well white Americans at least, only seem to concern themselves with their own generation. People's sense of time is so compressed they cannot even see the big picture. Whatever idea of history they have is mostly an invention conceived in the present. This is, IMHO, why this new rise of racial animosity caught white people off guard. That's from my perspective anyways. It's just really hard to teach people to love when there is no understanding. America is really good at sweeping disturbing/inconvenient things under the rug and pretending they went away.
Well said.
Sounds accurate. May I add, at the expense of sounding derogatory... US voters seem to have the attention span of a housefly.
The evil seed in the beginning was the intentional near genocide of Native People who truly knew how to live 14,000 years on Turtle Island. 2020 is the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower settler ship slamming into their homelands and dropping of Pilgrim colonists. We all need to look at the communal way Natives governed and how our brand of democracy was born of it . Peoples who were of this land knew how to treat all as one. And look who is the presumed leader of this land during these turbulent times. Can't wait to read and share this book with my tribal enrolled son who studies history in his senior year. Poetry for the soul spoken here.
ELEVATING DISCUSSION BY BRILLIANT AFRICANAMERICAN PROFESORS!!
Dawit Kelete is now a political prisoner.
I say!
Annie halls old boyfriend!
Practicing 'hope' how about formulating a strategy for liberation! Hope is for a weak minded , the fearful, the bewildered herd consciousness. The drug hope is prayed for , kneeling in these corrupt institutions, shells of pretense, " To heal the brokenness of My people, they offer superficial words. They say, “ Peace, peace,” as if all is well. But there is no peace.: -Jermemiah 6:14
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These are people that glorify a convicted child abuser because he gave them an excuse to claim indulge their bigotry. Hypocrites. What of David Dorn?
tic tac toe 3 racebaiters in a row.
The country "vomited up" DT b/c you told people not to vote in 2016. Shame. A wonderful chat and professor nonetheless.
It's less of an indictment of voters than it is of the *system* within which vomited up such an atrocious human being. A chronic choice of lesser evils gave us compounded evil in DT.
Wouldn't have had such a dilemma had the DNC not blatantly aligned against to cheat (twice!!) Bernie Sanders, who would have crushed Drumpf. But it was Her Turn. So here we are again: with another Neoliberal corporate sellout that we're all expected to rally behind.
But keep believing that we live in the Greatest Democracy In The World™. When in reality our political system is an auction house to the highest bidders.
Baldwin's amazing oeuvre is a scathing critique of the inextricable link between capitalism and racism. But today's Democratic party cronies will only pay it lip service, appear in Kente cloth for photo opp's and agree to paint BLM on streets. As West was saying, there needs to be way more of a critique of the black intellectual refusal to condemn these pantomime gestures in lieu of real substantive policy change addressing chronic poverty, shredding of the social safety net, lack of healthcare, police brutality, defunding and abolishing police, prison industrial complex, school to prison pipeline, all of the New Jim Crow, etc.
The Democratic Party has *no interest* in addressing *any of this*. Which is why people are in the streets. Because now white people get it too.
#AmericanRevolution2020 #BlackLivesMatter #WeAreThe99% #AbolishThePolice #CapitalismKills #SocialismSaves
Thank you, Haymarket! Amazing job with these discussions!
I love Dr. West, but his critiques of Obama are borderline obsessive. He's been singing that song for too many years.