The American history we face is not a history of racial justice progress, but what Baldwin calls “the big lie” and the betrayal of history by white supremacy. Du Bois, when he says our task of “beginning again” is “a hope, not hopeless, but unhopeful.”īaldwin tells of history and memory between what actually happened, and the kinds of stories we tell about what happened, and for what purpose. quotes American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-African civil rights activist, W.E.B. We are again living in the “After Times” now! This book is not a hopeful story of change this is a sobering book. Yet, he writes that each effort was followed by White backlash Baldwin calls the “After Times.” He gives hopeful examples of past Black rights gained, such as the civil rights laws during Reconstruction after the Civil War, and during the Black Power movement of the 1960s. Glaude’s title of “Begin Again” calls us to renewed action for racial justice. Photo courtesy of Thomas Hawk via Flickr. A PHOTO OF an artist’s depiction of acclaimed writer, James Baldwin, taken on Sept.
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