Writing with James Baldwin and Toni Morrison 4-Week Zoom Class, Starts Sunday, June 15th, 2025

Begins Sunday, June 15th, 2025 The class will meet weekly via Zoom on Sundays, 4:00pm ET - 6:00pm ET Now Enrolling! Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Eraldo Souza dos Santos is a Brazilian writer based between São Paulo and upstate New York. They recently joined Cornell as a Klarman Fellow and will join UC Irvine as an Assistant Professor within the university's newly founded Poetic Justice Cluster in April 2025. Their first book project is an autobiography of their illiterate mother and a meditation on the lived experience of enslavement in modern Brazil. At the age of seven, their mother was sold into slavery by her white foster sister. It was 1968—eighty years after the abolition of slavery in Brazil and four years into the anti-communist coup d’état, during the month in which the military overruled the Constitution by decree. Two pieces stemming from this project have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Eraldo will spend June a