James Baldwin

Biography

James Arthur Baldwin was an African-American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.

Known For

I Am Not Your Negro

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Explained

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Public Speaking

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Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris

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Madonna: Madame X

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Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

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The Dick Cavett Show

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Bobby Kennedy for President

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The Statue of Liberty

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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

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