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“One of the reasons, for example, I think that our youth is so badly educated—and...”
– James Baldwin Conversations with James Baldwin Excerpt from: An Interview with James Baldwin: Studs Terkel/1961 p. 15
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A Question of the Beat: Rediscovering James... →
Terkel’s interview with Baldwin ranged far, covering everything from how he became “one of the few men in the world today who knows who he is,” how he became a writer, the politics of identity and race in America, the imperiled state of our culture, and the role of the writer—and artist—in carrying the country through crisis. It was sometimes hard to remember that he was speaking in 1961...
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An Interview with James Baldwin by Studs... →
This interview was taped in the WFMT studios in Chicago on 15 July 1961 and it was broadcast by the station on the Studs Terkel program “Almanac” on 29 December 1961. Transcript can be found in: “Conversations with James Baldwin” Google Books: “Conversations with James Baldwin”
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Watered Whiskey: James Baldwin's Uncollected... →
It is indisputable that his 1949–59 writings are very different from those from the following decade. In 1948 he boarded a plane to France because he doubted his “ability to survive the fury of the color problem” in the United States; he “hated and feared white people” at the same time that he “despised” blacks, “possibly because they failed to produce Rembrandt.” Paris gave Baldwin the...
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Photographer Steve Schapiro, speaks on James...
Tavis: So many iconic figures I mentioned earlier you’ve photographed over the years. Last December we commemorated the 20th anniversary of the passing of one of this country’s great literary giants, Jimmy Baldwin - James Baldwin. And you spent some times with James Baldwin. Tell me about James Baldwin. Schapiro: Jimmy was, I think, one of the most enthusiastic persons I’ve...
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JAMES BALDWIN: HIS VOICE REMEMBERED; A Brother's...
Date: December 20, 1987, Sunday, Late City Final Edition Section 7; Page 29, Column 2; Book Review Desk Byline: By Maya Angelou Speeches will be given, essays written and hefty books will be published on the various lives of James Baldwin . Some fantasies will be broadcast and even some truths will be told. Someone will speak of the essayist James Baldwin in his role as the biblical...
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