Justice Delayed: “Make America What America Must Become” at the CAC New Orleans

“Make America What America Must Become” takes its title from a line in James Baldwin’s “A Letter to My Nephew.” Originally published as an article in 1962, it would later be renamed “My Dungeon Shook,” appearing as the first of two missives that constitute Baldwin’s seminal work The Fire Next Time (1963). The Contemporary Arts Center exhibition, mounted in response to what the curatorial statement calls a summer of “electoral consternation,&r