Through his media appearances, Glaude seeks to inject complexity, nuance, and passion to discussions surrounding present-day circumstances. Glaude is passionate about the media because he sees this institution as playing a key role in maintaining a healthy democracy. His most recent book, Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own won the 2021 Stowe Prize. His first academic publication, Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early 19th Century Black America, won the Modern Language Association's William Sanders Scarborough Book Prize. Fields Award, and was a visiting scholar in African-American Studies at Harvard University and Amherst College. Throughout his academic career, Glaude has received numerous awards including the Carl A. Six years after, Cornel West's return to Princeton led him to join the university's teaching staff. Glaude began his teaching career at Bowdoin College where he served as chair of the Department of Religion. He and his wife, the former Winnifred Brown, have a son, Langston. In 2015, Glaude received an honorary doctor of human letters from Colgate University. Glaude was also a founding member and senior fellow of the Jamestown Project. He sees these three fields as intertwined as they collectively shape aspects of political life and views of democracy. Within the Department of Religion, Glaude specialized in the subfield of religion, ethics, and politics. After graduating from Morehouse, Glaude earned a master's degree in African-American studies from Temple University and afterwards a Ph.D. Parker, Glaude was inspired to pursue a career in academia. While an undergraduate student, Glaude encountered theology and Black nationalist politics and his passion for politics expanded. Glaude graduated from high school at age 16 and in 1989 received his bachelor's degree from Morehouse College, where he served as the Student Government President. Here he got the opportunity to meet Jesse Jackson and Mario Coumo.
In 1984, Glaude went to San Francisco to be a part of the Mississippi Democratic Party at the Democratic National Convention. This opportunity was awarded to him through a YMCA program in Mississippi that invited students to the state capitol for a couple of days to assist in the duties of running the state government. At 15 years old, Glaude became the first Black Youth Governor of Mississippi. He was raised at St Peter's Apostolic Catholic Church in Pascagoula, a parish administered by the Josephites. His mother was a shipyard custodian who later served as the team's supervisor, while his father was a postman.
Glaude was born in 1968 in Moss Point, Mississippi into a working-class family.
His most recent book Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own won the 2021 Stowe Prize. As a public intellectual committed to American pragmatism and trained in the tradition of James Baldwin and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Glaude aims to think pragmatically about African American life and more broadly, to think philosophically about questions surrounding identity, agency, and history. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, where he is also the Chair of the Center for African American Studies and the Chair of the Department of African American Studies. (born September 4, 1968) is an American academic. Glaude speaking to the City Club of Cleveland in 2017.Įddie S.
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