Reading James Baldwin

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This seminar will examine the life work and the afterlife of James Baldwin, one of the 20th century's most important writers, activists, and social justice advocates. His work spans a number of genres (essays, short stories, plays, novels) and engages topics such as race, racism, music, film, politics, love, nation, gender, history, sexuality, and intimacy. A self-proclaimed witness, Baldwin offers a critical view of American society from the 1940s to 1980s.