{"title":"James Baldwin: Interventions","authors":"R. Jackson, S. Holland, Shawn Salvant","doi":"10.7227/jbr.5.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/jbr.5.14","url":null,"abstract":"“Interventions” was the organizing term for the presentations of\u0000 three Baldwin scholars at the Modern Language Association Convention in Chicago\u0000 in January of 2019. Baldwin’s travels and activities in spaces not\u0000 traditionally associated with him, including the U.S. South and West, represent\u0000 interventions of a quite literal type, while his aesthetic and critical\u0000 encounters with these and other cultures, including twenty-first-century\u0000 contexts of racial, and racist, affect—as in the case of Raoul\u0000 Peck’s 2016 film I Am Not Your Negro—provide\u0000 opportunities to reconsider his work as it contributes to new thinking about\u0000 race, space, property, citizenship, and aesthetics.","PeriodicalId":36467,"journal":{"name":"James Baldwin Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42887575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What “No Chart Can Tell Us”","authors":"Prentiss Clark","doi":"10.7227/jbr.5.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/jbr.5.3","url":null,"abstract":"This essay reads James Baldwin in conversation with two unexpected interlocutors\u0000 from the American nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Ralph Waldo Emerson and W.\u0000 E. B. Du Bois. What draws these historically distant and intellectually\u0000 different thinkers together, their differences making their convergences all the\u0000 more resonant and provocative, is a shared mode of attention they bring to the\u0000 social crises of their eras. It is a mode of attention foregrounding how the\u0000 often unobserved particulars and emotional registers of human life vitally shape\u0000 civic existence; more specifically, a mode of attention provoking us to see how\u0000 “a larger, juster, and fuller future,” in Du Bois’s words,\u0000 is a matter of the ordinary intimacies and estrangements in which we exist,\u0000 human connections in all their expressions and suppressions. Emerson names them\u0000 “facts [. . .] harder to read.” They are “the\u0000 finer manifestations,” in Du Bois’s terms, “of social life,\u0000 which history can but mention and which statistics can not count”;\u0000 “All these things,” Baldwin says, “[. . .]\u0000 which no chart can tell us.” In effect, from the 1830s to the 1980s these\u0000 thinkers bear witness to what politics, legislation, and even all our knowledges\u0000 can address only partially, and to the potentially transformative compensations\u0000 we might realize in the way we conduct our daily lives. The immediate relevance\u0000 and urgency this essay finds in their work exists not in proposed political\u0000 actions, programs for reform, or systematic theories of social justice but in\u0000 the way their words revitalize the ethical question “How shall I\u0000 live?” Accumulative and suggestive rather than systematically comparative\u0000 or polemical, this essay attempts to engage with Emerson, Du Bois, and Baldwin\u0000 intimately, to proceed in the spirit of their commitment to questioning received\u0000 disciplines, languages, and ways of inhabiting the world.","PeriodicalId":36467,"journal":{"name":"James Baldwin Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49184204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond Understanding","authors":"Rohan Ghatage","doi":"10.7227/jbr.5.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/jbr.5.5","url":null,"abstract":"This essay establishes a philosophical connection between James Baldwin and the\u0000 philosopher William James by investigating how the pragmatist protocol against\u0000 “vicious intellectualism” offers Baldwin a key resource for\u0000 thinking through how anti-black racism might be dismantled. While Richard Wright\u0000 had earlier denounced pragmatism for privileging experience over knowledge, and\u0000 thereby offering the black subject no means for redressing America’s\u0000 constitutive hierarchies, uncovering the current of Jamesian thought that runs\u0000 through Baldwin’s essays brings into view his attempt to move beyond\u0000 epistemology as the primary framework for inaugurating a future unburdened by\u0000 the problem of the color line. Although Baldwin indicts contemporaneous\u0000 arrangements of knowledge for producing the most dehumanizing forms of racism,\u0000 he does not simply attempt to rewrite the enervating meanings to which black\u0000 subjects are given. Articulating a pragmatist sensibility at various stages of\u0000 his career, Baldwin repeatedly suggests that the imagining and creation of a\u0000 better world is predicated upon rethinking the normative value accorded to\u0000 knowledge in the practice of politics. The provocative challenge that Baldwin\u0000 issues for his reader is to cease the well-established privileging of knowledge,\u0000 and to instead stage the struggle for freedom within an aesthetic, rather than\u0000 epistemological, paradigm.","PeriodicalId":36467,"journal":{"name":"James Baldwin Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49661452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sitting at Baldwin’s Table","authors":"Lindsey R. Swindall","doi":"10.7227/jbr.5.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/jbr.5.7","url":null,"abstract":"Last year, in the dispatch “There Is No Texting at James Baldwin’s\u0000 Table,” I began to assess the ways in which audiences were engaging with\u0000 Baldwin’s writing at several public discussions that I co-facilitated\u0000 with NYC actor/comedian Grant Cooper. Based on the initial reaction to two\u0000 five-part Baldwin conversations at a high school and middle school in Manhattan,\u0000 I posited that a need for meaningful communion is drawing people to discuss the\u0000 writer. As I wrote that article, I was busy scheduling seven new Baldwin\u0000 discussions in communities across New Jersey and another five-part series in\u0000 Manhattan. Having completed those sessions, I am pleased to report that\u0000 Baldwin’s welcome table is indeed a powerful vehicle for engaging in\u0000 impactful dialogue. This dispatch will demonstrate that discussing Baldwin not\u0000 only opened an avenue for productive sharing but went further by inspiring\u0000 people to ask how they could contribute to hastening positive social and\u0000 personal transformation. Three questions will frame this analysis of putting the\u0000 welcome table into practice: How many people want to sit at James\u0000 Baldwin’s table? Can conversations about James Baldwin sustain more\u0000 “welcome table moments”? Can these interactions create a sense of\u0000 kinship that deepens personal interaction in the digital age?","PeriodicalId":36467,"journal":{"name":"James Baldwin Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47991563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“We can love one another in other ways”","authors":"Michael Raeburn","doi":"10.7227/jbr.5.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/jbr.5.9","url":null,"abstract":"The author discusses his personal relationship with James Baldwin, recounting\u0000 their collaboration on a film script for an adaptation of\u0000 Giovanni’s Room.","PeriodicalId":36467,"journal":{"name":"James Baldwin Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49626403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Oceans of Love”","authors":"Leah Mirakhor","doi":"10.7227/jbr.5.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/jbr.5.11","url":null,"abstract":"This essay reviews Hilton Als’ 2019 exhibition God Made My Face: A\u0000 Collective Portrait of James Baldwin at the David Zwirner Gallery.\u0000 The show visually displays Baldwin in two parts: “A Walker in the\u0000 City” examines his biography and “Colonialism” examines\u0000 “what Baldwin himself was unable to do” by displaying the work of\u0000 contemporary artists and filmmakers whose works resonate with Baldwin’s\u0000 critiques of masculinity, race, and American empire. Mirakhor explores how\u0000 Als’ quest to restore Baldwin is part of a long and deep literary and\u0000 personal conversation that Als has been having since he was in his teens, and in\u0000 this instance, exploring why and how it has culminated via the visual, instead\u0000 of the literary. As Mirakhor observes, to be in the exhibit is not to just\u0000 observe how Als has formed and figured Baldwin, but to see how Baldwin has\u0000 informed and made Als, one of our most lyrical and impassioned contemporary\u0000 writers and thinkers.","PeriodicalId":36467,"journal":{"name":"James Baldwin Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49428031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Time is Now","authors":"M. Best","doi":"10.7227/jbr.5.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/jbr.5.6","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores an exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums, installed in the\u0000 fall of 2018, entitled Time is Now: Photography and Social Change in\u0000 James Baldwin’s America.","PeriodicalId":36467,"journal":{"name":"James Baldwin Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43571571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Baldwin This Time","authors":"Bill V. Mullen","doi":"10.7227/jbr.5.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/jbr.5.8","url":null,"abstract":"This excerpt from James Baldwin: Living in Fire details a key\u0000 juncture in Baldwin’s life, 1957–59, when he was transformed by a\u0000 visit to the South to write about the civil rights movement while grappling with\u0000 the meaning of the Algerian Revolution. The excerpt shows Baldwin understanding\u0000 black and Arab liberation struggles as simultaneous and parallel moments in the\u0000 rise of Third World, anti-colonial and anti-racist U.S. politics. It also shows\u0000 Baldwin’s emotional and psychological vulnerability to repressive state\u0000 violence experienced by black and Arab citizens in the U.S., France, and\u0000 Algiers.","PeriodicalId":36467,"journal":{"name":"James Baldwin Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44646053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“I live a hope despite my knowing better”: James Baldwin in Conversation with Fritz J. Raddatz (1978)","authors":"Gianna Zocco","doi":"10.7227/JBR.4.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/JBR.4.11","url":null,"abstract":"This is the first English-language publication of an interview with James Baldwin conducted by the German writer, editor, and journalist Fritz J. Raddatz in 1978 at Baldwin’s house in St. Paul-de-Vence. In the same year, it was published in German in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit, as well as in a book of Raddatz’s conversations with international writers, and—in Italian translation—in the newspaper La Repubblica. The interview covers various topics characteristic of Baldwin’s interests at the time—among them his thoughts about Jimmy Carter’s presidency, his reasons for planning to return to the United States, his disillusionment after the series of murders of black civil rights activists in the 1960s and 1970s, and the role of love and sexuality in his literary writings. A special emphasis lies on the discussion of possible parallels between Nazi Germany and U.S. racism, with Baldwin most prominently likening the whole city of New York to a concentration camp. Due to copyright reasons, this reprint is based on an English translation of the edited version published in German. A one-hour tape recording of the original English conversation between Raddatz and Baldwin is accessible at the German literary archive in Marbach.","PeriodicalId":36467,"journal":{"name":"James Baldwin Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44801736","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"My Dear White Sister: Self-examining White Privilege and the Myth of America","authors":"Keely Shinners","doi":"10.7227/JBR.4.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/JBR.4.7","url":null,"abstract":"James Baldwin, in his landmark essay “My Dungeon Shook,” says that white Americans are “still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it.” This open letter explores this history on a personal level. Taking notes from Baldwin’s indictments of whiteness in Another Country and The Fire Next Time, this essay explores how white people, despite claims of deniability, become culpable, complicit, and ensnared in their racial privilege. By reading Baldwin’s work through a personal lens, it implores fellow white readers and scholars of Baldwin to begin examining the myths of America by first examining themselves.","PeriodicalId":36467,"journal":{"name":"James Baldwin Review","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49262996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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