Advocates using James Baldwin's essays to motivate high school and college students to write and think critically. Contends Baldwin is the greatest American essayist since World War II. Cites Baldwin's love of language and his carefully crafted prose. Describes assignments in which students write about their mother or father or about growing up.…

Discussion of Negro autobiographies focuses on the writings of James Baldwin, Claude Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, Malcolm X., Anne Moody, and Richard Wright. (MF)

The 12 autobiographical selections in this publication were chosen to suggest the range, depth, and variety of personal experiences available through autobiography; to focus the student's attention upon his own personal experiences; and to raise artistic questions about the relationships between "inner" and "outer" experiences. The…

Discusses the ways in which three latter-day Black writers, (Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison), have raised questions about the values which Americans profess in common. (Author/JM)

James Baldwin's ideas, such as that of a genetic science, and their influence on later theorists such as Piaget, Vygotsky, and Kohlberg, are described. The further Baldwin moved from the study of infancy, the more speculative and the less empirically verifiable became his ideas. (BC)

James Baldwin's special sense of his blackness enables him to combine Walt Whitman's awareness of urban wandering and Henry James' self-conscious cosmopolitanism in his books, particularly "Go Tell It on the Mountain." (BJV)

The 15 studies in this collection investigate the various images of the Negro in American literature--images which range from streotype to archetype. In the first six studies, critics discuss the literary tradition of the Negro in colonial literature (Milton Cantor), in the Southern novel prior to 1850 (Tremaine McDowell), in literature of the…

Suggests that James Baldwin was one of the most prolific authors of schoolbooks for children during his lifetime (1841-1925). Notes that in addition to the Baldwin Readers (1897), he coauthored the Harper Readers (1888) and Expressive Readers (1911). Estimates that his publications numbered 54 volumes and that 26 million copies of his works sold…

A comparison of the works of two homosexual authors, John Rechy and James Baldwin, reveals similarities--the hating father, an oppressive religion--but also differences in the extent to which the two authors come to terms with themselves. (JH)

Praises the humanitarian value of a James Baldwin play, which pleads for compassion and understanding of another man's (here, the Negro's) point of view, trials and triumphs as a human being, and search to find meaning in the human predicament. (KG)

Notes that James Baldwin's new book--The Devil Finds Work--is a look by Baldwin at the movies, and that it is also a look by Baldwin at Baldwin, and the conflicting and contradictory effects the movies have had on his life and all of ours. (Author/AM)

An historical survey of the themes, directions, trends, and artistic techniques of black writers in America provides insight into the works of such artists as Phyllis Wheatley, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and LeRoi Jones. (MF)

Introduces the symposium articles originally offered during a panel discussion, "Teaching Race and Racism in Geography: Classroom and Curriculum Perspectives," that convened at the 1998 Boston (Massachusetts) meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Draws upon several passages from James Baldwin. (CMK)

Describes the ideas proposed by James Mark Baldwin which anticipated much of Jean Piaget's work. The goals, genetic approach, and epistemological assumptions underlying Piaget's inquiry into cognitive development found explicit statement in Baldwin's work. Discusses Baldwin's current importance for psychology. (Author/CB)

Describes how James Baldwin in his essays unravels the complexities of the present--complexities which involve the history and projected future of blacks, as well as their turbulent present. Baldwin's vision is not of a monolithic society but of tranquility within duality, an acceptance of two-ness in American society. (RJ)