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James Baldwin Writings
The very best writing from a master essayist and social critic
Articles/Essays Stranger in the Village
From all available evidence no black man had ever set foot in this tiny Swiss village before I came…
Notes of a Native Son
On the 29th of July, in 1943, my father died. On the same day, a few hours later, his last child was born…
How to Cool It by James Baldwin
How can we get the black people to cool it? It is not for us to cool it…
Letter from a Region in My Mind
I underwent, during the summer that I became fourteen, a prolonged religious crisis…
A Talk to Teachers
Let’s begin by saying that we are living through a very dangerous time…
A Report from Occupied Territory by James Baldwin
I know, in my own flesh, and know, which is worse, in the scars borne by many of those dearest to me, the thunder and fire of the billy club, the paralyzing shock of spittle in the face…
If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?
The argument concerning the use, or the status, or the reality, of black English is rooted in American history and has absolutely nothing to do with the question the argument supposes itself to be posing…
Many Thousands Gone
It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story….
A Letter to My Nephew
I have begun this letter five times and torn it up five times…
Sonny’s Blues
I read about it in the paper, in the subway, on my way to work. I read it, and I couldn’t believe it, and I read it again…
Everybody’s Protest Novel
A rejection of the protest novel and call for complexity
The Creative Process
Perhaps the primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone…
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James Baldwin, 1964. Photo by Jean-Regis Rouston/Roger Viollet/Getty Images.
The giver (for Berdis)
Le sporting-club de Monte Carlo (for Lena Horne)
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