Glaude Jr.’s Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own effectively interweaves Baldwin’s time with our own. … Unfortunately, northern capitalists and southern landlords destroyed this unity and order.” 1 In interpreting his country’s present and envisioning its future, Baldwin turned to the past.Įlaborating on the entanglements between the past and present of US politics, Eddie S. “Black and white people were side by side even in trade unions in the South,” Baldwin said, and continued: “We had Black members in Parliament. He explained that the future he imagined already existed in the past of the country, namely in the Reconstruction era. Baldwin, in his reply, chose instead to talk about the history of the United States. In 1965, a reporter for Cumhuriyet, a Turkish daily newspaper, asked the novelist, playwright, and essayist James Baldwin-then living in Istanbul-about his dreams for the future of the United States.
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