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The New York Times bestselling author of “Begin Again” confronts America’s unfinished story in this blistering reassessment of race, freedom, and the myths that bind us.A Cappella Books and the Emory Center for Public Scholarship and Engagement proudly welcome Eddie S. Glaude Jr. to the Performing Arts Studio at Emory University for a discussion of his highly-anticipated new book, "America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries." Glaude will appear in conversation with Erica Armstrong Dunbar, award-winning historian, professor, and author of the National Book Award finalist “Never Caught.”
Tickets include a signed first edition of “America, U.S.A.."
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About the Book
Celebrated public intellectual Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. presents a groundbreaking analysis of the vicious cycles of American history and the country’s enduring refusal to face its true nature—especially at the moments when national anniversaries steer us back toward the mythology meant to disguise the truth.
"America, U.S.A.," deliberately formulated and beautifully written, details a heart-wrenching exploration of America’s legacy. It is a magnificently complex combination of lessons and voices—from W.E.B. DuBois and John Dos Passos to Herman Melville and Martin Luther King, Jr.—that, together, paint a sprawling and honest tableau of the United States, its complicated past, and ever more tenuous future. Glaude’s is a powerful voice of conscience in our tumultuous world. He pulls no punches, calling on us to interrogate our conceptions of innocence and freedom and the stories we tell ourselves about our past and present.
Centered around the major celebrations of America’s milestone birthdays across 250 years of history, the book offers a riveting look at the battles over who has a stake in writing the American story. Devastatingly candid, profoundly moving, and deeply reflective, America, U.S.A. is a shining meditation on how we must reckon with a grim past in order to strive for the better angels of our future.
About the Author
Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University and author of New York Times bestselling “Begin Again” and “Democracy in Black.”
About the Conversation Partner
Erica Armstrong Dunbar is a historian whose work centers the lives of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Black women in what would become the United States. She received her B.A. in History and Africana Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. in History from Columbia University. Her scholarship focuses on slavery and freedom, social history, urban history, and women’s history, with a strong commitment to bringing that work to broad public audiences through television, film, radio, and podcasts.
Dunbar is the author of “A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City,” “Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge,” and “She Came To Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman.” “Never Caught” was a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction and co-winner of the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize. Her essays and commentary have appeared in outlets including the New York Times, The Nation, TIME, Essence, the New York Review of Books, CNN, and the LA Times, and she has appeared in documentaries including “The Abolitionists,” “Black Patriots,” and Ken Burns’ “Benjamin Franklin.” She also served as Co-Executive Producer on HBO’s “The Gilded Age.”
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