Eddie S. Glaude Jr., "America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversary"
The New School for Social Research
September 22, 2025
VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbeUJWR5qLE
This distinguished lecture by Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Distinguished Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University, took place on September 18, 2025 and was part of the Henry H. Arnhold Forum on Global Challenges at The New School. This lecture aimed to situate our current malaise in the run-up to the 250th anniversary of the nation. What are we to make of the attacks on American history? Of the insistence of a certain story about the founding of the country that hides and conceals its contradiction? Glaude argues that at the heart of our troubles is America’s double consciousness (its divided soul): that the nation imagines itself, at once, as a beacon of freedom and as a white Republic. That split has resulted in a kind of madness that has malformed American democracy.
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