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from PRINCETON UNIVERSITY Media advisory: Princeton scholar offers commentary
on Black History Month PRINCETON, N.J. -- Black History Month is an appropriate occasion to engage the African-American community in a meaningful dialogue on the unfinished business of American democracy, according to Eddie S. Glaude Jr., a Princeton University associate professor. Glaude, a guest lecturer to community groups across the country, offers insight on the importance of Black History Month to the African-American community. "It is a time to reflect on a grand tradition of the struggle. But Black History Month calls attention to the incompleteness of American democracy and offers us an opportunity to assess the state of African-American politics in the 21st century," Glaude said. "The black community is very complex. We have to be mindful of the deep divisions between the middle and upper class and black poor and working class. There needs to be a new cadre of leadership and a new kind of black activism to respond to the issues of today." Glaude is available to the media to provide commentary on Black History Month, Africana studies, African-American community and political activism. Other scholars are available as well and can be contacted through Patricia Allen, University media relations manager, at (609) 258-6108. Glaude is the author of "Exodus! Religion, Race and Nation in Early 19th-Century Black America," winner of the Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Book Prize. He edited "Is It Nation Time? Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism," and is the co-editor, with Cornel West, of "African-American Religious Studies: An Anthology." Glaude teaches in the Department of Religion and the Program in African-American Studies. His classes include "Black Power and Its Theology of Liberation" and "A frican- American Religious History." Glaude joined the faculty in 2002 after teaching at Bowdoin College. A graduate of Morehouse College, he earned a master's degree in African-American studies from Temple University and master's and doctoral degrees in religion from Princeton. |