Bibliography

Works by James A. Baldwin

Original physical exhibit

• Go Tell It on the Mountain. New York: Knopf, 1953.
• Notes of a Native Son. Boston: Beacon Press, 1955.
• “Black Boy Looks at the White Boy. Norman Mailer.” Esquire 55 (May 1961): 102–6.
• Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son. New York: Dell, 1962.
• The Fire next Time. Reprint. New York: Vintage International Vintage Books, (1963) 1993.
• Giovanni's Room. New York: Dell, 1964.
• Blues for Mister Charlie, a Play. New York: Dial Press, 1964.
• Baldwin and Malcolm X. One Day, When I Was Lost: Based on Alex Haley’s, The Autobiography of Malcolm X; a Scenario. New York: Dial Press, 1973.
• Baldwin and Raoul Peck. I Am Not Your Negro: A Major Motion Picture Directed by Raoul Peck. New York: Vintage Books, 2017.

Additional works featured in web exhibit

• “Letter from a Region in My Mind." The New Yorker (print edition) November 17, 1962.
• Another Country. New York: Dial Press, 1962.
• Baldwin and Margaret Mead. A Rap on Race. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1971.
• No Name in the Street. New York: Dial Press, 1972.
• Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni. A Dialogue. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1973. (Full text online)
• The Devil Finds Work: An Essay. New York: Dial Press, 1976.
• Baldwin and Yoran Cazac. Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood. London: Joseph, 1976.
• “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?” The New York Times, July 29, 1979.
• “ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST VISITS: James Baldwin AUGUST 1987.” Photos by Daniel H. Minassian. Architectural Digest, The Complete Archive.
• Baldwin and Nikky Finney. Jimmy’s Blues and Other Poems. Boston: Beacon Press, 2014.

Works about James A. Baldwin

Original physical exhibit

• Bobia, Rosa. The Critical Reception of James Baldwin in France. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.
• Brim, Matt. James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2014.
• Kenan, Randall. "James Baldwin, 1924-1987: A Brief Biography" in A Historical Guide to James Baldwin. Edited by Douglas Field. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Kornegay, E. L. A Queering of Black Theology: James Baldwin’s Blues Project and Gospel Prose. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
• Lawrie Balfour. “‘A Most Disagreeable Mirror’: Race Consciousness as Double Consciousness.” Political Theory, no. 3 (1998): 346.
• Marc Lombardo. “James Baldwin’s Philosophical Critique of Sexuality.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, no. 1 (2009): 40.
• McKenna, Erin, and Scott L. Pratt. American Philosophy: From Wounded Knee to the Present. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
• Muyumba, Walton. “‘All Safety Is an Illusion’: John Dewey, James Baldwin, and the Democratic Practice of Public Critique.” In Trained Capacities: John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice, edited by Brian Jackson and Gregory Clark, 159–73. Columbia, SC: U of South Carolina Press, 2014.
• Pakay, Sedat., Kathryn. Hubbard, and Barbara Earl Thomas. Bearing Witness from Another Place: James Baldwin in Turkey. Seattle: Northwest African American Museum, 2012.
• Relyea, Sarah. Outsider Citizens: The Remaking of Postwar Identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin. New York: Routledge, 2006.
• Schulenberg, Ulf. Romanticism and Pragmatism: Richard Rorty and the Idea of a Poeticized Culture. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
• West, Cornel. Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight against Imperialism. New York: Penguin Press, 2004. (Full text online)
• White, Carol Wayne. “James Baldwin: Religion, Race, and the Love of Humanity.” In Black Lives and Sacred Humanity : Toward an African American Religious Naturalism, 93. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016. 
• Young, Josiah U. James Baldwin’s Understanding of God: Overwhelming Desire and Joy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
• Zamalin, Alex. African American Political Thought and American Culture: The Nation’s Struggle for Racial Justice. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Additional works featured in web exhibit

• “‘At the Root of the Negro Problem Is the Necessity of the White Man to Find a Way of Living with the Negro in Order to Live with Himself.’” 1963. TIME Magazine 81 (20): 26–27.
• Thompson, Mark Christian. Phenomenal Blackness: Black Power, Philosophy, and Theory. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022.
• Tuhkanen, Mikko. “Watching Time: James Baldwin and Malcolm X.” James Baldwin Review 2, no. 1 (September 1, 2016): 97–125.
• Vogel, Joseph. James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2018.