This review essay considers the question of authority and authorization in contemporary black political culture in light of two recent books, Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. and Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III.
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