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Begin Again
- James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
- Narrado por: Eddie S. Glaude
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same.”—Time
James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. What can we learn from his struggle in our own moment?
One of the Best Books of the Year: Time, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune • One of Esquire’s Best Biographies of All Time • Winner of the Stowe Prize • Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice
“Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.”—James Baldwin
Begin Again is one of the great books on James Baldwin and a powerful reckoning with America’s ongoing failure to confront the lies it tells itself about race. Just as in Baldwin’s “after times,” argues Eddie S. Glaude Jr., when white Americans met the civil rights movement’s call for truth and justice with blind rage and the murders of movement leaders, so in our moment were the Obama presidency and the birth of Black Lives Matter answered with the ascendance of Trump and the violent resurgence of white nationalism.
In these brilliant and stirring pages, Glaude finds hope and guidance in Baldwin as he mixes biography—drawn partially from newly uncovered Baldwin interviews—with history, memoir, and poignant analysis of our current moment to reveal the painful cycle of Black resistance and white retrenchment. As Glaude bears witness to the difficult truth of racism’s continued grip on the national soul, Begin Again is a searing exploration of the tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America.
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“Begin Again is a groundbreaking and informative guide to Baldwin and his era.”—The Washington Post
“A rugged literary miracle.”—Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy
“Even if you don’t agree with Glaude’s interpretations, you’ll find yourself productively arguing with them. He parses, he pronounces, he cajoles. He spurs you to revisit Baldwin’s work yourself.”—The New York Times
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Every 17 years, the periodical cicadas known as "Brood X" emerge from the ground in regions across the Eastern US. Whether you find its distinctive racket—a mechanical din of whirrs and clicks—nostalgic or maddening, the dulcet sounds of our favorite audiobooks are a timely complement (or antidote) to the sonic swarm. To make them feel at home, we present our favorite listens from past cycles—and some new recommendations to bring them up to date.
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Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz-musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his life and death, discovering uncomfortable truths about themselves along the way. Another Country is a work that is as powerful today as it was 40 years ago - and expertly narrated by Dion Graham.
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Powerful and sad
- De Kenneth en 04-10-09
De: James Baldwin
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Nobody Knows My Name
- More Notes of a Native Son
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Kevin Kenerly
- Duración: 5 h y 49 m
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James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name records the last months of this famed American writer's 10-year self-exile in Europe, his return to America and to Harlem, and his first trip south at the time of the school integration battles. It contains Baldwin's controversial and intimate profiles of Norman Mailer, Richard Wright, and Ingmar Bergman. And it explores such varied themes as the relations between blacks and whites, the role of blacks in America and in Europe, and the question of sexual identity.
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Excellent on all counts!
- De Stephen York en 12-03-17
De: James Baldwin
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
- A Novel (Vintage International)
- De: James Baldwin, Roxane Gay - introduction
- Narrado por: Roxane Gay, Joe Morton
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefront church in Harlem.
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Haunting
- De DAN en 08-22-24
De: James Baldwin, y otros
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Notes of a Native Son
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 5 h y 3 m
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Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of Black life and Black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of that era.
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Masterful Essayist
- De Andre en 09-30-16
De: James Baldwin
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The Price of the Ticket
- Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 34 h y 3 m
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Personal and prophetic, these essays uncover what it means to live in a racist American society with insights that feel as fresh today as they did over the four decades in which he composed them. Longtime Baldwin fans and especially those just discovering his genius will appreciate this essential collection of his great nonfiction writing. Along with 46 additional pieces, it includes the full text of dozens of famous essays from such books as:
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insightful
- De Jose L. Massas en 01-07-23
De: James Baldwin
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Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone
- Vintage International
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Kevin Kenerly
- Duración: 14 h y 45 m
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At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leo's loyalty.
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Long story
- De A. Baulkman en 08-01-24
De: James Baldwin
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James Baldwin: Living in Fire
- Revolutionary Lives
- De: Bill V. Mullen
- Narrado por: Douglas Storm
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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In the first major biography of Baldwin in more than a decade, Bill V. Mullen celebrates the personal and political life of the great African American writer who changed the face of Western politics and culture. As a lifelong anti-imperialist, Black queer advocate, and feminist, Baldwin (1924-1987) was a passionate chronicler of the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, the US war against Vietnam, Palestinian liberation struggle, and the rise of LGBTQ rights.
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No Name in the Street
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Kevin Kenerly
- Duración: 5 h
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This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent '60s and early '70s displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works. In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early consciousness, the later events that scored his heart with pain - the murders of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, his sojourns in Europe and in Hollywood, and his return to the American South to confront a violent America face-to-face.
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A strange and terrible vehicle
- De Darwin8u en 02-07-20
De: James Baldwin
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You Mean It or You Don't
- James Baldwin's Radical Challenge
- De: Jamie McGhee, Adam Hollowell
- Narrado por: Julienne Irons
- Duración: 5 h y 12 m
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Taking up that challenge and drawing from Baldwin's fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and interviews, You Mean It or You Don't will spur today's progressives from conviction to action. It is not enough, authors Hollowell and McGhee urge us, to hold progressive views on racial justice, LGBTQ+ identity, and economic inequality. True and lasting change demands a response to Baldwin's radical challenge for moral commitment. Called to move from dreams of justice to living it out in communities, churches, and neighborhoods, we can show that we truly mean it.
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The Devil Finds Work
- An Essay
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 3 h y 41 m
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Baldwin's personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also a probing appraisal of American racial politics. Offering an incisive look at racism in American movies and a vision of America's self-delusions and deceptions, Baldwin challenges the underlying assumptions in such films as In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, and The Exorcist.
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A Critical Masterpiece.
- De Ramon McGee en 05-10-18
De: James Baldwin
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The Condemnation of Blackness
- Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
- De: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 12 h y 43 m
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Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black Southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime in American society. Chronicling the emergence of deeply embedded notions of black people as a dangerous race of criminals by explicit contrast to working-class whites and European immigrants, this fascinating book reveals the influence such ideas have had on urban development and social policies.
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For a very select audience
- De Andrew en 12-28-17
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Just Above My Head
- De: James Baldwin
- Narrado por: Kevin Kenerly
- Duración: 20 h y 45 m
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The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this novel with a stunning, unforgettable experience. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and to the political fire that inflames his nonfiction work.
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Wonderful poignant story
- De Africa en 12-02-18
De: James Baldwin
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Begin Again
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- The Alchemist
- 07-02-20
Class Action Lawsuit
... I couldn’t help but think about the damage and the theft of the Lie.... our lies in our education robbed us not only of this beautiful soul, Jimmy Baldwin, but our humanity.
Dr. G, as amazing and earnest a critique of our present reality, this treatise was like a reintroduction to Jimmy... a begin againing.
Wonderful beautifully written great read!!!!!!
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- SHOPPER IN MICHIGAN
- 07-06-20
AMAZING!
Prof. Glaude eloquently lays out, thru the lens of James Baldwin, the basic idea that if Americans doesnt stop lying to themselves about our inherent goodness, we will never heal and be what we say we are. This book helps black americans exhale in truth.
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- Carmita
- 08-03-20
Black Is Keen!
This read was the perfect ending, yet beginning after a weekend of watching I Am Not Your Negro documentary and Ava Duvernay's 13th.
Beautifully composed and eloquently narrated, I was held captivated from start to finish. So much resonated with me regarding Black America as it relates our past, present, and future. The life and legacy of Mr. Baldwin and his brutal honesty of life as he knew it is a mere reflection of the forever pain,suffering and oppression of our people.
I admire that the author shared keen insights from Bladwin's life during Jim Crow while giving us a powerful reminder of our present-day society, especially living in the Trump era. I couldn't agree more with his thoughts on Trumpisms. What a time to be alive.
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- Matthew
- 08-24-21
A must read for 2021
Informative and inspiring, this is a must read for 2021. This book helps the reader learn more about James Baldwin, his writing and activism, and how we can learn from it and put it into context and action today.
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- carl garrison
- 08-17-20
A must read ( listen)
Glaude’s analysis of Baldwin juxtaposed between the current political landscape & trumpism is just the sociological & historical antidote for a troubled time .
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- Dan Wilson
- 08-03-20
read this book.
Truth is twisted by politics... but (often slowly) unveiled by time. Listen to this American perspective; Get on good, right & truth's side of history.
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- Eashwayne haughton
- 10-18-20
Insightful
It was extremely insightful and timely. A truly great book and call to action. I throughly enjoyed the author’s framing and explanation of the issue at hand.
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- Christopher Hoye
- 09-19-21
Begin Again
This book spoke to me like no other. It was a painful and honest visit with favorite author and friend. Mr. Would have made Jimmy proud.
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- windchild
- 11-28-20
There is power in the Truth!!
Very much enjoyed the context and rhythm of this intimate sharing. Well written and well done!
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- willcape
- 10-17-21
Should Be Staple Listening!
This my first James Balwin audiobook. l loved the organization and the clarity, this is a must listen to.
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