James Baldwin: An American Prophet

3 credits · Divinity School

This course will engage James Baldwin in five interrelated and interlocking social ethical functions: as cultural critic, as social critic, as national prophet, as enraged public moralist, and as political gadfly. This course will wrestle with James Baldwin’s eloquent writings, his searing testimony, and his fearless rhetorical and existential courage as he bore witness to the possibility of change only after we confronted the brutal lies and submerged truths of the American social contract. [3] Mr. Dyson