Eddie Glaude: Don't Let MAGA Own America's 250th Anniversary
Eddie Glaude’s new book, America USA: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries, argues that America’s milestone celebrations reveal a national double consciousness: the country imagines itself as both a beacon of freedom and a white republic, a contradiction that erupts in cycles of
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