McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University, Glaude helped shape that institution’s African-American studies department while he was a doctoral candidate in religion, before joining the faculty in 2002.Ī former president of the American Academy of Religion, he also has written books tackling the subject in “An Uncommon Faith: A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of African American Religion,” and “African American Religion: A Very Short Introduction, and Exodus! Religion, Race and Nation in Early 19th Century Black America.” The latter earned the Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Book Prize.Īt age 16, Glaude left his hometown of Moss, Point Mississsppi and began studying at Morehouse University in Atlanta. In his writing and speaking, Glaude is an American critic in the tradition of James Baldwin and Ralph Waldo Emerson, confronting history and bringing the nation’s complexities, vulnerabilities and hope into full view.

Glaude’s books include “ Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul,” and “In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America.” These books take a wide look at Black communities, the difficulties of race in the United States and the challenges the nation faces as a democracy. 4 in the Marano Campus Center auditorium as part of the “I Am Oz” Diversity Speaker Series. Eddie Glaude Jr., a bestselling author and chair of the African American studies department at Princeton University, will speak to a SUNY Oswego audience at 6:30 p.m.

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