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Collected Essays

James Baldwin · 1998

Library of America Baldwin Collected Essays — Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name, The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, The Devil Finds Work, and uncollected essays. Load-bearing for the queer-canon + Black-radical-tradition axis and the developmental-theology arc (Baldwin's preacher-son register on shame, witness, the white church).

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Sex & Religion

What this book knows

America's racial wound is also its spiritual crisis: Baldwin names what the country cannot admit about itself.

Sex: Present
Work: Absent
Learning: Present
Religion: Primary

self-and-identityfaith-and-doubtobedience-and-authority

faith-and-doubt

I left the pulpit twenty-seven years ago. That says a good deal about my relationship to the Christian Church.
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Stokely Carmichael began his life as a Christian, marching, beaten, jailed, doing precisely what the Christian Church is supposed to do.
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obedience-and-authority

For a policeman, all black men are probably Black Panthers, just as in a Vietnamese village the entire population are considered probable Vietcong.
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White people appear astonished that a black man, woman, or child can have any reason to fear a white cop.
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self-and-identity

My quarrel with the English language had been that the language reflected none of my experience.
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Paris left me completely alone — for a black boy raised on the chicken-shit goodwill of American liberals, this indifference came as a great relief.
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6 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis

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