James Baldwin

Salvific Manhood: A New Book about Male Intimacy in James Baldwin’s Novels

October 4, 2019October 4, 2019 J. T. Roane black intellectual history, Black Queer Identity, Gender, James Baldwin, literature, masculinity, sexuality

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

James Baldwin’s Ideas and Activism during the 1980s

September 20, 2018September 25, 2018 Aderson Francois black intellectual history, James Baldwin, literature, race, racism

James Baldwin died on November 30, 1987, at his home in Saint Paul de Vence, a small village on the

James Baldwin and The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual

October 24, 2017October 25, 2017 Holly Genovese black intellectual history, Harold Cruse, James Baldwin

*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967). Click here to