Likes Me, James Baldwin and the Un-fragmenting of …

Likes Me, James Baldwin and the Un-fragmenting of Euro-modern Time by folukeifejola.

This essay reminded me of the famous quote often attributed to Churchill: “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” But Baldwin’s point is even more unsettling. We don’t merely repeat history because we’ve forgotten it. We repeat history because history is still here, living within our institutions, assumptions, and ways of seeing the world.

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