James Baldwin's America and its urgent lessons for our own
"James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the Civil Rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. In the era of Trump, what can we learn from his struggle? Mixing biography--drawn partially from . . . interviews--with history, memoir, and trenchant analysis of our . . . moment, [this book] is [the author's] attempt, following Baldwin, to bear witness to the difficult truth of race in America. It is at once an . . . exploration that lays bare the tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, and an . . . interrogation of what we all must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America"--Provided by publisher.
