Thursday, March 31, 2022
7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
Memorial Union Building Granite State Room
Event Type
(none)
Contact
603.862-1058
Campus
Durham
Link
https://calendar.unh.edu/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=66985
Race and Democracy: America is Always Changing, But America Never Changes
America’s great promise of equality has always rung hollow
in the ears of Black Americans. Today, more than 60 years after the civil
rights movement, Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr. says the situation is equally dire — and
yet, the promise still lives. Drawing from his landmark book, Democracy
in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul and his New
York Times bestseller Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and
its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, Dr. Glaude presents a picture of race and
democracy that is colored by current events and framed by African American
history. Bearing witness to the difficult truth in our country today, Dr.
Glaude lays bare the tangled web of race, trauma and memory, and what we all
must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America.
Glaude is the James S. McDonnel Distinguished University Professor and Chair of the Dept of African American Studies at Princeton.
Event is co-sponsred by CEPS, COLA, COLSA, Graduate School, MUB, Office of President, Paul College, Sustainability Institute, Women and Gender Studies and Community, Equity, and Diversity Office