on Thursday, July 22 in the Amphitheater, Glaude concluded the Chautauqua Lecture Series Week Four theme of “Many Americas: Navigating Our Divides.” This was a joint presentation between the Chautauqua Lecture Series and the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle.
McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University. Glaude is the chair of the Department of African American Studies and James S. “This vision of this new Black subject makes sense only if we are to understand a certain view of white people in this country - how white people are valued more than others and how that valuation dictates the distribution of advantages and disadvantages,” he said. Glaude said America has an old myth when it comes to Black people - that Black people are inherently lesser, and white people are inherently more morally just.
It should not even attempt to solve social problems, but it certainly should try to clarify them,” Morrison said. It must make it possible to prepare for the present and live it out and it must do that not by avoiding problems and contradictions, but by examining them. “If my work is to be functional to the group, to the village as it were, then it must bear witness and identify that which is useful from the past and that which ought to be discarded. began his lecture by quoting Toni Morrison.
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