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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. What can we learn from his struggle in our own moment?

One of the Best Books of the Year: Time, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune • One of Esquire’s Best Biographies of All Time • Winner of the Stowe Prize • Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice

“Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.”—James Baldwin

Begin Again is one of the great books on James Baldwin and a powerful reckoning with America’s ongoing failure to confront the lies it tells itself about race. Just as in Baldwin’s “after times,” argues Eddie S. Glaude Jr., when white Americans met the civil rights movement’s call for truth and justice with blind rage and the murders of movement leaders, so in our moment were the 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—drawn partially from newly uncovered Baldwin interviews—with history, memoir, and poignant analysis of our current moment to reveal the painful cycle of Black resistance and white retrenchment. As Glaude bears witness to the difficult truth of racism’s continued grip on the national soul, Begin Again 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.

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“Begin Again is a groundbreaking and informative guide to Baldwin and his era.”—The Washington Post

“A rugged literary miracle.”—Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy

“Even if you don’t agree with Glaude’s interpretations, you’ll find yourself productively arguing with them. He parses, he pronounces, he cajoles. He spurs you to revisit Baldwin’s work yourself.”—The New York Times

“Not only is Baldwin brought rushing forth from the page, with all the beauty of his prose and complexity of his thought, but Glaude’s voice joins him with a force and clarity of its own. . . . Baldwin and Glaude offer us a path forward that is both exceedingly difficult and genuinely hopeful.”—The Post and Courier

“In the midst of an ugly Trump regime and a beautiful Baldwin revival, Eddie Glaude has plunged to the profound depths and [soared to the] sublime heights of Baldwin’s prophetic challenge to our present-day crisis.”—Cornel West, author of Democracy Matters and Race Matters

“Begin Again is . . . a timeless and spellbinding conversation between two brilliant writers.”—Edwidge Danticat, author of Brother, I’m Dying and Everything Inside

“One need not agree with everything in these pages to learn much from them, and for Americans seeking to understand our past, our present, and the possible futures before us, Begin Again challenges, illuminates, and points us toward, if not a more perfect union, at least a more just one.”—Jon Meacham, author of The Soul of America and Destiny and Power

“Glaude's work is urgent, pained, and strangely hopeful. He is issuing a call to reckoning: not just with the dishonesty of America's founding promises, but with the tolls that its intrinsic racism has taken on the artists and thinkers who have come before.”—Rebecca Traister, author of All the Single Ladies and Good and Mad

“James Baldwin is a man for our moment: in a time of Black Lives Matter, we’ve come to think about our past, our colonial history, enslavement, matters of race and identity. You’re left with an understanding of the extraordinary modernity, relevance, and the immense power of James Baldwin. It’s a simply wonderful book.”—Philippe Sands, author of East West Street

“The magic of Begin Again is that it allows us to ponder Baldwin both in his perilous era and in our own. Remarkable, and remarkably relevant.”—Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Life on Mars

“Begin Again is an unparalleled masterpiece of social criticism. Glaude thinks alongside America’s finest essayist, matching the master’s firepower, brilliance, courage, and sensitivity at every turn.”—Imani Perry, author of Breathe and Looking for Lorraine

“In this powerful and elegant book, Glaude weaves together a biography, a meditation, a literary analysis, and a moral essay on America. . . . ”—Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci

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Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University and author of Democracy in Black.

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Chapter One

The Lie

James Baldwin and Stokely Carmichael first met during the heady days of the movement to desegregate the South. Carmichael was a young activist and a member of a student group at Howard University called the Nonviolent Action Group (NAG), which sought to combat racism and segregation in Washington, D.C., and in the surrounding areas of Virginia and Maryland. NAG offered a snapshot of the civil rights movement’s future: Carmichael’s fellow students in the group included Courtland Cox, Michael Thelwell, Muriel Tillinghast, and Ruth Brown, all of whom would go on to be influential leaders in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). On Howard’s campus, NAG sponsored a series of programs called Project Awareness, which was designed to explore the full complexity and richness of black life and to engage the controversies surrounding the black freedom movement. It was through these programs that James Baldwin was invited to campus.

During the spring semester of 1963, after the violent response directed at the movement in Birmingham, the group organized a symposium about the role and responsibility of the black writer in the civil rights struggle. They invited Baldwin, playwright Lorraine Hansberry, novelists John O. Killens and Ralph Ellison, and actor and playwright Ossie Davis. Ellison sent his regrets, and Hansberry was too ill to attend, but students packed the auditorium. Baldwin had just finished a speaking tour on behalf of the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE), and this audience was hungry to hear him speak. Malcolm X, in town by happenstance, dropped in to hear Jimmy hold forth. “Whenever I hear that this little brother is going to speak in any town where I am,” he said, “I always make a point of going to listen, because I learn something.”

Baldwin didn’t disappoint. He was a captivating speaker, with a powerful, almost hypnotic cadence; if the desire to be a preacher had long ago left him, his ability to hold a crowd in his hand had not. “It is the responsibility of the Negro writer to excavate the real history of this country . . . to tell us what really happened to get us where we are now,” he boldly declared from the stage at Howard. “We must tell the truth till we can no longer bear it.”

After the symposium ended, Baldwin, Killens, and Davis joined a group of students in the small, cramped apartment of a few NAG members. The hour was late. Jimmy needed a glass of Johnnie Walker Black, but the liquor stores were closed. Someone knew a bootlegger. The impromptu rap session went on until sunrise. “Our older brothers reasoned with us like family,” Carmichael, who would become known as Kwame Ture, later recalled, even though he confused the date of the panel and the subsequent events. “We had three years of struggle behind us,” he said. “So was the March on Washington and Dr. King’s Dream. John F. Kennedy had recently been gunned down. The national mood was sore, tense, and uncertain, as was our mood.” Everyone understood the burden the students carried on their shoulders. Despite their relative youth, they had already confronted the brutality of the South in an effort to desegregate lunch counters and to register black people to vote. Many had been beaten and chased down dusty roads in Mississippi and Alabama by the Klan and by white sheriffs. These students were the shock troops of the civil rights movement, and many suffered from the trauma induced by a region and a country reluctant to change. Pessimism and rage threatened to overwhelm them.

Baldwin worried about the young men and women like an older brother who did not know exactly how to protect them from the dangers he already glimpsed ahead. For him, the brutality of sheriff “Bull” Connor’s dogs and firehouses in Birmingham had already foreshadowed what was to come, revealing a depth to the country’s depravity that no single piece of legislation could cure.

As the meeting wound down, Baldwin was left to say the final words, and he brought the conversation full circle to the reason why the students had invited him to campus. “Well, here we are, my young brothers and sisters. Here’s how matters stand. I, Jimmy Baldwin, as a black writer, must in some way represent you. Now, you didn’t elect me and I didn’t ask for it, but here we are.” All eyes were fixed on him. “Everything I write will in some way reflect on you. So . . . what do we do? I’ll make you a pledge. If you will promise your elder brother that you will never, ever accept any of the many derogatory, degrading, and reductive definitions that this society has ready for you, then I, Jimmy Baldwin, promise you I shall never betray you.”

It was an avowal of love, and a declaration of his responsibility as a writer dedicated to speaking the truth.

“It is, alas, the truth that to be an American writer today means mounting an unending attack on all that Americans believe themselves to hold sacred,” Baldwin wrote in 1962. “It means fighting an astute and agile guerrilla warfare with that American complacency which so inadequately masks the American panic.” In this sense, Baldwin’s view of the writer was a decidedly moral one. The writer puts aside America’s myths and legends and forces a kind of confrontation with the society as it is, becoming a disturber of the peace in doing so.

By the time Baldwin sat down with the Howard students in 1963, he was at the height of his powers, if not yet the full-on disturber of the peace he would soon become. In a relatively short period of time since the publication of his first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, in 1953, his play Amen Corner in 1954, and his first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son, in 1955, he had become one of the most prominent African American writers and critics in the United States. With his view of the moral role of the writer; his faith in the redemptive possibilities of human beings, no matter their color; and his initial faith in the possibility that the country could change, Baldwin was catapulted to literary fame and emerged as one of the most incisive and honest critics of America and its race problem. His admirers stretched across racial and political spectrums. Malcolm X referred to him as “the poet of the revolution.” Edmund Wilson described him as one of the great creative artists of the country.

Since the publication of Notes of a Native Son, Baldwin had insisted that the country grapple with the contradiction at the heart of its self-understanding: the fact that in this so-called democracy, people believed that the color of one’s skin determined the relative value of an individual’s life and justified the way American society was organized. That belief and justification had dehumanized entire groups of people. White Americans were not excluded from its effects. “In this debasement and definition of black people,” Baldwin argued, white people “debased and defined themselves.”

Baldwin’s understanding of the American condition cohered around a set of practices that, taken together, constitute something I will refer to throughout this book as the lie. The idea of facing the lie was always at the heart of Jimmy’s witness, because he thought that it, as opposed to our claim to the shining city on a hill, was what made America truly exceptional. The lie is more properly several sets of lies with a single purpose. If what I have called the “value gap” is the idea that in America white lives have always mattered more than the lives of others, then the lie is a broad and powerful architecture of false assumptions by which the value gap is maintained. These are the narrative assumptions that support the everyday order of American life, which means we breathe them like air. We count them as truths. We absorb them into our character.

One set of lies debases black people; examples stretch from the writings of the Founding Fathers to The Bell Curve. According to these lies, black people are essentially inferior, less human than white people, and therefore deserving of their particular station in American life. We see these lies every day in the stereotypes that black people are lazy, dishonest, sexually promiscuous, prone to criminal behavior, and only seeking a handout from big government. Baldwin made the Howard students promise him that they would never believe the lies the country told about them, because he knew that the lie would do irreparable harm to their souls, as it had done to the country.

Another constituent part of the lie involves lies about American history and about the trauma that America has visited throughout that history on people of color both at home and abroad. According to these lies, America is fundamentally good and innocent, its bad deeds dismissed as mistakes corrected on the way to “a more perfect union.” The United States has always been shadowed by practices that contradict our most cherished principles. The genocide of native peoples, slavery, racial apartheid, Japanese internment camps, and the subordination of women reveal that our basic creed that “all men are created equal” was a lie, at least in practice. These weren’t minor events in the grand history of the “redeemer nation,” nor were they simply the outcomes of a time when such views were widely held. Each moment represented a profound revelation about who we were as a country—just as the moments of resistance against them said something about who we aspired to be.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crown; First Edition (June 30, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0525575324
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0525575320
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.96 x 1 x 8.53 inches

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Repeating himself, repeating himself...repeating himself!

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2020

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A powerful book with many lessons around the life and journey of James Baldwin. Moreover, it is a story about an author who initially resisted learning and reading the works of "Jimmy".

Eddie S Glaude, Jr. is masterful in his expression and drawing in the reader only to leave them quite confounded to the circumstances of their own reality. He explains and expounds on this all throughout his book "repeating himself...repeating himself...repeating himself" like the drumbeat of a death march casting a foreshadowing of things to come if one does not heed the apparent warnings and signs of the times. The challenge and call to action are clear. We must change and for real THIS time!

This book challenged me in ways I had not anticipated. Again, as I learn more about the world, history, people, places, and things the more I realize how much I really do not know, let alone fully comprehend. It gives me pause. Pause when I see others not slow down long enough to understand what they are really truly saying and how their 'intent' is ultimately doomed to disenfranchise their 'impact.' Pause to question myself and ask "why am I questioning them" and to repeat the introspection of "who am I." Pause to understand Jimmy and what he was really trying to tell 'the America' he loved so much. He was a patriot in the truest sense though some may feel him a traitor.

Jimmy, like Glaude, like me, was almost ready to give up on America, especially White America. I struggle still.
Jimmy had turned to White folks time and time again to help with the racial unrest in America but was often betrayed. White folks hurt Jimmy not realizing that in him was perhaps one of their greatest allies. Black folks betrayed Jimmy as well thinking of him as some type of sellout, a betrayal to blackness, and the cause. What few understood until much later is that Jimmy was definitely for America. A new American that would be fluid in accepting all and living up to the ideals penned by the Founding Fathers though their hearts were far from the narrative of that masterful work and their eyes dim to what our country would become.

When White people killed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. it crushed and changed Jimmy. Others who were alive when it happened were changed too. For me, the change took place this week when Breonna Taylor and her family found no justice, no peace! I was incensed. No justice, no peace took on a whole new meaning for me. The lack of peace in the nation is more so found in the depths of my very soul. Rayshard... Ahmaud... Daniel... George... Breonna... These names are more than unsettling and the nation has yet to hold up the mirror to itself and stand accountable, responsible, and repent. America is in rage and the people indeed imagine vain things (Psalm 2:1). My head hangs low and I repeat, "here we are now...here we are now...here we are now." I look up from whence cometh my help! (Psalm 121:1-2)

Jimmy. I would have never thought to call him that. Jimmy. I guess those that knew him best would engage him on such an informal platform. Jimmy. I feel as though I know him more and better than I thought possible though he is no longer with us.

One final thought is that when I personally see the face of Jimmy I see the face of my late Uncle Ducky. Perhaps as a kid, I couldn't say "Douglas" or "Dougy" so my childish naive mind fashion the words "Ducky." I imagine I was perhaps more familiar with ducks when I was little. Either way, the name is forever etched in my mind as Uncle Ducky. Jimmy and Uncle Ducky had the same look, the same demeanor, and the same cool way of speaking. They had the same small thin frame though I believe Uncle Ducky was much taller than Jimmy. Uncle Ducky had one of the smoothest ways of speaking and engaging in conversation. Sometimes his words slurred together due to a night of heavy drinking or smoking that stuff which is legal in some states today, but the point is it still made sense or, at least, sense to me. I miss him!

Jimmy, and Ducky, will be missed. The beauty in pursuing the works of James Baldwin is that perhaps somewhere along my journey I will learn about a man who penned his thoughts, condemnation, rebuke, love, and admiration for a country he deeply desired to make itself anew. To make itself anew for ALL people. To make itself anew because it CAN! To make itself anew because it can no longer afford NOT to.

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A Voice Crying In The Wilderness

Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2023

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James Baldwin was akin to the biblical prophet…’a voice crying in the wilderness’. He knew from whence he came. He was a loving man living the unloved life of being queer and black. His words reflect the pain and hope of the individual and the collective. He offers them freely but they are not for the faint of heart. His words are so poignant for such a time as this. And Eddie Claude, Jr. does a masterful job of complimenting Baldwin’s ‘after’ life with a voice of the ‘now’….pleading with Americans to finally choose a better way…on our way to the New Jerusalem. Great book!

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Dr. Helen Holton

A Phenomenal & Informative Work

Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2021

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I read this book between Kindle & Audible. I couldn’t put it down. A richness of history that offers a deeper understanding of where we find ourselves at this moment in time. I rarely write reviews of books read. There few books I consume from beginning to end these days. It commanded my attention from the beginning.

Professor Glaude, I will return to this book again and again as I grapple with making sense of our nation today. Our democracy is at risk and if it’s to rebound as a construct that serves us all as a real Republic it will take our active and participative witness to share our truths in the space of a new reality. A reality that’s anchored in an inclusive, diverse, and equitable posture that recognizes it takes all of us to participate in the shaping of our future. Thank you.

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Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2021

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Not knowing much about James Baldwin other than a parade of thought-provoking quotes, I was very interested in reading “Begin Again” by Princeton Professor Eddie S Glaude, Jr. I was not disappointed. The author presented the information in a thoughtfully engaging way.
It’s a marvelous journey through the Civil Rights movement and up and through the Obama and Trump administrations. It taps into the ways Baldwin’s shift into politics injured him personally and professionally. According to Mr. Glaude, Baldwin was trapped somewhere between the pacifism of King and the militancy of X and Angela Davis. And this middle ground brought with it a great deal of criticism from his contemporaries, including Cleaver and Hughes. But Baldwin seemed to be a more transformative man than other gave him credit for being.
The author focuses on the question the country has dealt with from its inception. It snakes its way through Reconstruction, the Civil Rights movement to the Trump administration. All of it pointing towards “appeals to white identity. The symbolism that white people will protect at any cost.”
Much hinges on the supposed “Negro problem.” Freed from bondage, “what will be his place among obvious superiors… how might we might respond to his demands for equality.”
In his early years, Baldwin believed in Thoreau’s call to “awaken the sleeper.” But after the violence and death, the church burnings, the race riots, the assassinations, he came to find there was no such thing as a Negro problem. Trying to reconcile the hate, he concluded that “Black power frightens them. White power doesn’t frighten them… It’s a waste of time to hate them… Hatred, in the end, corrodes the soul.”
What is happening in the country today is a reflection of the country’s oldest battle, “… the disaffected Trump voter … feel left out of an increasingly diverse America.”
Emancipation was more or less a result of a falling out between white men. And the myths and lies of Black America were renewed during Reconstruction as MLK said, “… as white historians tell, Negroes wallowed in corruption, opportunism… stupidity, were wanton evil, and ignorant… freedom was dangerous in the hands of inferior beings.” They didn’t view their own behavior and leadership as being this way, suffering from a superiority complex.
Baldwin often travelled to Paris and Istanbul to find refuge, to avoid being “broken on the wheel of life.” His sexuality was sometimes an issue even amongst his own. He attempted suicide. He battled lifelong depression. But in the end, Baldwin wanted to do something unprecedented. “To create ourselves without finding it necessary to create an enemy.”
I found the book fascinating although I will admit that on a few occasions it seemed slightly repetitious, like we covering the same ground again. Having scant knowledge of Baldwin’s life before reading this book, I’m not sure if there is anything revolutionary or revealing in it. I leave that to others to decide. I think it’s a great leap off point for anyone who seeks a better understanding of Baldwin, his life, his struggles, and the Civil Rights movement as it was and still is today. 5 stars.

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Very informative read. Would have liked this on the big screen. A hidden figure for sure. Enjoyed this book immensely.

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Sherry Cooper

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Reviewed in Canada on July 28, 2020

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From this book, I see that Trump is not an aberration, but another along a continuum of the big American lie. We are not great, we are not fully a democracy, and American has never overcome its original sin of slavery. The public school American history books are fairy tales that too many white people want to perpetuate. Will we ever change and create a just society? This book leaves me hopeful in my hopelessness.

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A well researched and thoughtful look at where we are with race relations in America

Reviewed in Germany on August 22, 2020

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I liked the way Eddie Claude used the writing of James Baldwin to give hope to all wanting meaningful change to the way America has excepted it's past and it's importance to the future of the nation. Well done Professor Claude!

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