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James Baldwin’s Understanding of God

Part of the Black Religion / Womanist Thought / Social Justice Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137454348

ISBN: 978-1-349-49791-1

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 2, 2015

1 - 10 of 14 Chapters

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Introduction

Young, Josiah Ulysses

Pages: 1 –5

[James Arthur Baldwin (1924–1987) was the most well-known African American writer of his generation. He wrote prolifically and received many awards because of the high quality of his work: a Eugene F. Saxon Memorial Trust Award (1945), a Rosenwald Fellowship (1947), a Guggenheim Fellowship...
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Credo

Young, Josiah Ulysses

Pages: 7 –11

[In the book Conversations with James Baldwin, edited by Fred Standley and Louis Pratt, British writer Colin MacInnes asks James Baldwin during a 1965 conversation whether he is “a religious writer.” MacInnes wants to know if “the concept of God” means anything to Baldwin. “Are you a believer in...
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Born in a Christian Culture

Young, Josiah Ulysses

Pages: 13 –24

[In “Stranger in the Village,” Baldwin asserts that his father, David Baldwin, paid a tremendous price for “having taken his own conversion too literally.” He did not forgive “the white world (which he described as heathen) for having saddled him with a Christ in whom, to judge at least from...
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In Search of a Majority

Young, Josiah Ulysses

Pages: 25 –33

[James Baldwin’s becoming a writer had to do with his “trying to discover and… avoid” himself (CE, 809). 1 He wanted to sculpt an “accumulated rock of ages” to attain a weighty image of himself, and he wanted to make the portrait public and instructive; so he wrote about the conflicts within him...
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Scarred by the Rock

Young, Josiah Ulysses

Pages: 35 –57

[David Baldwin was born in Bunkie, Louisiana, around 1863; he lived in New Orleans before he migrated to Harlem. 1 He married James Baldwin’s mother, Berdis Jones, in 1927. Baldwin writes, “That man I called my father really was my father in every sense except the biological, or literal one. He...
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Opening the Unusual Door

Young, Josiah Ulysses

Pages: 59 –77

[James Baldwin walked through Beauford Delaney’s door in 1941. Delaney (1901–1979) was an impoverished African American artist who lived for years in New York City’s Greenwich Village where he was a legend for many. Art critics note Delaney’s abstract, impressionistic paintings—especially Greene...
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Coming out the Wilderness

Young, Josiah Ulysses

Pages: 79 –100

[In the “Take me to the Water” section of his autobiographical No Name in the Street, Baldwin recalls seeing in Paris, France, in 1956 newspaper photos of Dorothy Counts, one of the black youth attempting to integrate an all-white high school in Charlotte, North Carolina. The photographs captured...
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Weighing Your Gods and You

Young, Josiah Ulysses

Pages: 101 –115

[We have to try to be better than the world is integral to Baldwin’s credo: “His passionate belief… passionate knowledge of what a human being can do, and become—to change the world in which he finds himself [emphasis added].” 1 Let me say again that I have found no evidence that he believed in a...
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Declining to “Imitate the Son of the Morning”

Young, Josiah Ulysses

Pages: 117 –130

[In 1963, the year Baldwin published The Fire Next Time, Martin Luther King Jr. and his organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), took on white authority in Birmingham, Alabama. Television cameras recorded Birmingham police dogs attacking black demonstrators, the fire...
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That Train’s Long Gone

Young, Josiah Ulysses

Pages: 131 –145

[Angela Davis is not the only black revolutionary Baldwin writes about. He writes about Stokley Carmichael in a 1968 essay, “Black Power.” The essay is about the book Carmichael cow-rote with Charles V. Hamilton— Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America. 1 Carmichael belonged to the...

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