America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries Music Even if that family is

Even if that family is a little strange

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and what happens when brutality from “the man” goes unchecked

These ten stories show the fallibility of time and how reality reveals itself behind the gauze of a dream—or a nightmare

Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award

America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation's Anniversaries Music Even if that family isThe New York Times bestselling author of Begin Again confronts Americas unfinished story in this blistering reassessment of race, freedom, and the myths that bind us. Celebrated public intellectual Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. presents a groundbreaking analysis of the vicious cycles of American history and the countrys enduring refusal to face its true natureespecially at the moments when national anniversaries steer us back toward the mythology meant to