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	James Baldwin - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Baldwin, James (1924-1987), American writer, whose focus on issues of racial discrimination made him a prominent spokesperson for racial equality,...
		James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – November 30, 1987) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, poet, and essayist, best known for his novel Go Tell...
		James Arthur Baldwin was born in Harlem, New York City, Aug. 2, 1924 and died on Nov. 30, 1987.
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	James Baldwin (writer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was a novelist, short story writer, and essayist, best known for his novel Go Tell it on the Mountain.
		Baldwin was born in New York's Harlem neighborhood in 1924, the first of his mother's nine children.
		Baldwin died of cancer in 1987 at the age of 63.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Baldwin_(writer) (843 words)

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		James Baldwin came to Bowling Green State University in 1978 as writer-in-residence and returned in 1979 as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies.
		And Baldwin was driven to understand the philosophical implications, and social and historical consequences, of racism.
		Baldwin was a supreme artist in whichever genre he chose to write, whether fiction, essay, drama, or poetry.
	www.bgsu.edu /departments/ethn/baldwin.html (497 words)

	James Baldwin Essay
		Both he and Wright were viewed as "protest" writers because of their persistent criticism of the legacy of racism that they perceived in the United States and Europe, but Baldwin eschewed "protest" as a shallow and futile goal.
		Baldwin 's fiction was much influenced by Wright's masterwork novel, Native Son (1940), which was heralded as the quintessential treatise on the psyche of the fl American.
		Though Baldwin 's world view is frequently expressed in biting commentary, it is always tempered, paradoxically, with an urgent cry for fls and whites to come together, in love, to liberate themselves from a history of racism.
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	James Baldwin, the Writer, Dies in France at 63 - New York Times
		James Baldwin, whose passionate, intensely personal essays in the 1950's and 60's on racial discrimination in America helped break down the nation's color barrier, died of cancer last night at his home in southern France.
		Baldwin's brother, David, was with him at his home in St. Paul de Vence when he died, according to Cynthia Packard, a friend and former assistant to the author, who said she talked with David by telephone last night.
		Baldwin's prose, ith its apocalyptic tone - a legacy of his early exposure to religious fundamentalism - and its passionate yet distanced sense of advocacy, seemed perfect for a period in which fls in the South lived under continual threat of racial violence and in which civil-rights workers often faced brutal beatings and even death.
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	James Baldwin: An Appreciation
		James Baldwin isn't much commented on these days, but for a few years in the early 1960s he lit up the cultural landscape like a bolt from the heavens-a prophet of the decade's fl liberation struggle who became one of the most widely read African-American writers in this country's history.
		Baldwin's great strength as an essayist is the dialectic contained in his style, which serves at the same time as a supple means of expression of the movement of his thought, and as an effective rhetoric, drawing the reader into new territories which might not have been entered had warning been posted in advance.
		Baldwin himself was galvanized, and often thrown into a sort of frenzy, by the movement (which itself became increasingly frenzied as the decade progressed), and came to support, albeit from a distance, most of the moves toward greater militancy.
	www.bookwire.com /bbr/interviews/baldwin.html (1597 words)

	James Baldwin RIP. (obituary)
		AS A PROSE WRITER, James Baldwin attempted to contain a contradiction that no doubt reflected the assorted contradictions within his psyche.
		Baldwin's early and justly celebrated essays are in this vein.
		James Baldwin died last week of cancer, at 63, in France.
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	James Baldwin
		James Baldwin was born in 1924 and educated in New York.
		The eldest of nine children, Baldwin was raised in a strict religious household in Harlem, New York.
		Baldwin was named a Commander of the Legion of Honor, France's highest honor in 1986, a year before he died of stomach cancer.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/b/baldwin_james.htm (519 words)

	LI220 Report on James Baldwin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		James Baldwin, born in Harlem New York City, August 2, 1924 was a very famous civil rights activist as well as a famous novelist.
		James Baldwin, by his death, had become one of the most important and vocal advocates for equality.
		James created pieces that will live on for generations to come and novels that, "will remain essential parts of American canons." James was also ranked with Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison as a spokesman for his generation of fl writers.
	cstl-cla.semo.edu /pardee/li220-74-spring2004/protected/Materials/Reports/baldwin.htm (534 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| LRB essay \| The Henry James of Harlem: James Baldwin's struggles
		Baldwin was born in Harlem in 1924, the eldest of a large family.
		Baldwin's bitterness was fired by working in a defence plant in New Jersey during the war, and learning that "bars, bowling alleys, diners, places to live" were closed to him.
		Baldwin later said that there were no fictional antecedents for Rufus: "He was in the novel because I don't think anyone had ever watched the disintegration of a fl boy from that particular point of view.
	books.guardian.co.uk /lrb/articles/0,6109,551979,00.html (4433 words)

	PAL: James Baldwin (1924-1987)
		Baldwin was born “in the church”; not only meaning that both parents were avid Christians, but that the foundations of his morality stemmed from generations of deep believers (Campbell 4).
		Simultaneously, Baldwin was having battles with his own faith and was advised by Capouya that it was cowardly to remain in the church simply because he was afraid to leave it.
		Baldwin hoped that this fluidity in sexuality could be correlated with the fluidity of race in regards to societal appropriateness.
	web.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap10/baldwin.html (2905 words)

	The My Hero Project - James Baldwin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As an educator, Baldwin inspires me because he spoke up for his own rights and the rights of others at a time when speaking up was sometimes a dangerous thing to do.
		James Baldwin's childhood memories (at least those he wrote about) focused mainly on his difficult relationship with his strict, religious father.
		Ariel Durant was a writer, scholar and philosopher.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=Baldwin_Elmhurst (780 words)

	James Baldwin
		James Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924, in New York's Harlem, the illegitimate son of a domestic worker.
		Baldwin adopted the surname of his stepfather, who died in a mental hospital in 1943.
		In middle school, Baldwin had taken French classes from poet Countee Cullen, who was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s.
	amsaw.org /amsaw-ithappenedinhistory-080203-baldwin.html (658 words)

	James Baldwin
		Baldwin wrote novels, poetry, essays and a screenplay in the later years of his life.
		Baldwin has written a morality play on the racial conflict and contrast in the American twentieth-century.
		In another work, Baldwin wrote, "Integration means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality, and begin to change it." But fl anger is certainly a part of Blues for Mr.
	www.bridgesweb.com /blacktheatre/baldwin.html (889 words)

	identity theory \| dust jacket syndrome - james baldwin by daniel garrett
		James Baldwin's values were courage, fairness, honesty, compassion, the importance of knowing (humanity, reality), and tenderness; and he looked for ambiguity, complexity, and recognition of human pain in conversation, art, and politics, in the belief that these were not only intrinsically interesting but led to the possibility of wisdom, healing, and community.
		Baldwin said that listening to Smith in Europe reminded him of fl American life, that the naturalness of her expressions reminded him of what he must have sounded like when he was a child.
		James Baldwin did something writers rarely do: he let the demands of the public world greatly influence the direction of his work, especially as regards civil rights for African Americans, but this was not a simple capitulation.
	www.identitytheory.com /books/garrett6.html (4025 words)

	James Baldwin, Eloquent Writer In Behalf of Civil Rights, Is Dead - New York Times
		LEAD: James Baldwin, whose passionate, intensely personal essays in the 1950's and 60's on racial discrimination in America made him an eloquent voice of the civil-rights movement, died of stomach cancer early yesterday at his home in St. Paul de Vence in southern France.
		James Baldwin, whose passionate, intensely personal essays in the 1950's and 60's on racial discrimination in America made him an eloquent voice of the civil-rights movement, died of stomach cancer early yesterday at his home in St. Paul de Vence in southern France.
		Baldwin's prose, with its apocalyptic tone - a legacy of his early exposure to religious fundamentalism - and its passionate yet distanced sense of advocacy, seemed perfect for a period in which fls in the South lived under continual threat of racial violence and in which civil-rights workers faced brutal beatings and even death.
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	James Baldwin
		James Baldwin himself says little about his childhood, commenting only that it "is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the unrestrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again." The eldest of nine children, Baldwin was born in Harlem on August 2, 1922.
		Baldwin believed that racism stemmed from the insecurities of white men, who turned to the fls as scapegoats for their own internal feelings of powerlessness.
		Through his works, Baldwin's arguments for civil rights transcend colour boundaries and stress the idea that, regardless of race or culture, we are all human beings, and should all be treated as such.
	www.shider.com /history/baldwin.htm (621 words)

	James Baldwin (1924-1987)
		If a writer is self-defined as African-American, that writer will aim to inscribe the collective subjectivity under the aspect of a particular character.
		Of course, the point is valid for women writers and other groups also, as long as the writers have chosen deliberately to identify themselves as part of the collective body.
		Baldwin's frequent use of the first-person narration and the personal essay naturally associates his writing with autobiography.
	college.hmco.com /english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/baldwin.html (662 words)

	James Baldwin (writer) information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		James Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was a novelist, short story writer, and essayist, known for his novel Go Tell it on the Mountain.
		Baldwin was born in New York's Harlem neighborhood in 1924, the first of his mother's nine children.
		Baldwin died of cancer in 1987 at the age of 63.
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	Amazon.ca: James Baldwin Collected Essays: Books: Toni Morrison (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Writer James Baldwin earnestly championed the civil rights movement in both his fiction and nonfiction, a fact which, coupled with his extraordinary writing talent, assured not only his historical importance, but also his place as one of the finest African American writers of his generation.
		Baldwin's impassioned essays have been at least as influential as his novels in exposing the racial polarization of American society.
		Baldwin is a polemicist of rare quality, inspiring with the quality of his argument and prose.
	www.amazon.ca /James-Baldwin-Collected-Essays-Morrison/dp/1883011523 (2124 words)

	James Baldwin (1924-1987)
		If a writer is self-defined as African-American, that writer will aim to inscribe the collective subjectivity under the aspect of a particular character.
		Of course, the point is valid for women writers and other groups also, as long as the writers have chosen deliberately to identify themselves as part of the collective body.
		Baldwin's frequent use of the first-person narration and the personal essay naturally associates his writing with autobiography.
	www.georgetown.edu /bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/baldwin.html (662 words)

	More on James Baldwin
		Baldwin is skillful, one can never really know the corrosion of hate, the taste of fear or the misery of humiliation unless one has lived it.
		In this interview, Baldwin explains that his long absence from writing was a result of an illness and writer's block, both of which were brought on by sadness over the course of the civil rights movement and the assassinations of its leaders.
		Baldwin says that the traditional history and self-image of America are based on a system of reality that excludes the humanity of fl people and that coming to terms with many of the issues raised by the civil rights movement will require a more honest assessment of America's past and present.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin.html (1547 words)

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		One of America's greatest writer's, fl or white, James Arthur Baldwin was born in Harlem, NY on August 2, 1924.
		By 1948, Baldwin felt that the insufferable racial climate was inhibiting his creativity as a writer and moved to France.
		James Baldwin died in 1987, a true giant in the world of literature.
	www.hometoharlem.com /HARLEM/hthcult.nsf/notables/jamesbaldwin (310 words)

	James Baldwin Biography \| James Baldwin
		James Baldwin (1924-1987), American writer, whose focus on issues of racial discrimination made him a prominent spokesperson for racial equality, especially during the civil rights movements of the 1960s.
		James Arthur Baldwin was born in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City to a single mother, Emma Birdis Jones.
		Baldwin’s other works include the plays The Amen Corner (1950) and Blues for Mister Charlie (1964); the short-story collection Going to Meet the Man (1965); the essay collections The Devil Finds Work (1976) and The Price of the Ticket (1985); and the poetry collection Jimmy’s Blues (1985).
	www.auuuu.com /biographies/writers/jamesbaldwin (678 words)

	James Baldwin
		James Baldwin was born in Harlem, New York City, as the son of a domestic worker.
		Baldwin emphasized the importance of family bonds and the simple power of love as a means of survival.
		of James Baldwin by Horace A. Porter (1988);
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	James Baldwin Biography and Bibliography at LitWeb.net
		Baldwin was born in Harlem, New York City, as the son of a domestic worker.
		Baldwin adopted the surname from his stepfather, who died eventually in a mental hospital.
		Baldwin had found release from his poor surroundings through a Pentecostal church, in which he was converted at age fourteen and which he served as a minister for three years.
	www.litweb.net /biography/87/James_Baldwin.html (1176 words)

	James Baldwin
		Baldwin wrote novels, poetry, essays and a screenplay in the later years of his life.
		At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document.
		James Baldwin's portrayal of fl people in Harlem caught up in a dramatic struggle, and of a society confronting inevitable change.
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