Start Over

Eddie S. Glaude Jr. argues that James Baldwin's unfinished reckoning with America remains the nation's most urgent inheritance. From Dorothy Counts walking through hatred at Harding High School in 1957 to Baldwin's breakdown after King's assassination at the Lorraine Motel, this book traces how white privilege operates through silence, how the Black Panthers' Executive Mandate Number One answered liberal pacifism, and why Baldwin's suppressed manuscript No Name in the Street became a confession of collective grief. America's wound, Glaude insists, cannot heal until it is named.

You'll learn:

- Why Baldwin called American textbooks a form of warfare

- How the Mulford Act weaponized gun control against Oakland

- What Baldwin's hospital confession revealed about survival as political act