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James Baldwin on History, Responsibility, and Atonement

Thu, November 21, 2024
Dinner Program
Melvin Rogers

James Baldwin offers a radical reimagining of racial justice, calling for atonement over redemption. Challenging the evasive optimism of racial liberalism, Baldwin insists that America face its history of white supremacy without retreating into innocence.

Join Melvin Rogers, a scholar of democratic theory and the history of African American political thought, and Director of the Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Brown University, for a discussion of Baldwin's enduring perspective on history, responsibility, and atonement.

Melvin Rogers is the Edna and Richard Salomon Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Brown University. He is the author of The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality and the Ethos of Democracy (Columbia University Press) and the award-winning book The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought (Princeton University Press). He is also the editor of John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems (Ohio University Press), co-editor of African American Political Thought: A Collected History (University of Chicago Press), and co-editor of the book series: Oxford New Histories of Philosophy. He received the 2023 James W. C. Pennington Award from Heidelberg University for his scholarship.

Professor Rogers' Athenaeum presentation kicks off CMC's "Baldwin at 100" conference, and is co-sponsored by the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies and the Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World at CMC.

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