Baldwin-Buckley Debate at Cambridge Union, 1965
This event is sponsored/ cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity, the James Baldwin Review, the Department of African and African American Studies, the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, the Center for the Humanities, and the WashU School of Law.
Belonging in Opera is presented by the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and Washington University’s Department of Music.
To commemorate the five-year anniversary of Belonging in Opera, CRE2 and the James Baldwin Review will host a screening of the historic 1965 Cambridge Union debate over the motion “Is the American Dream at the Expense of the American Negro?” Though their debate took place over sixty years ago, its themes remain relevant today and animate the March 19th performance The Tongue and the Lash.
A discussion with Nicholas Buccola, Ph.D., author of The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America, will follow.
The debate is 60 minutes in length and there will be a Q&A Section following the screening. Lunch is provided. Please RSVP below.
