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James Mark Baldwin

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James Mark Baldwin Information
3,219 words, approx. 11 pages
James Mark Baldwin (Columbia, South Carolina, 1861–1934) was an American philosopher and psychologist who was educated at Princeton under the supervision of Scottish philosopher James McCosh. He made important contributions to early psychology,...


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The Boston Globe
James Baldwin
12/03/1987: 363 words, approx. 1 pages
The call for equality, freedom and tolerance echoes in the works of James Baldwin as surely as sound reverberates from a mountaintop. It is the call of all black people for an end to the irrational hatred that has allowed them to share the...
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The Economist (US)
James Baldwin: A Biography.
06/18/1994: 632 words, approx. 2 pages
JAMES BALDWIN: A BIOGRAPHY. By David Leeming. Alfred Knopf; 388 pages; $25. Pelham; Pounds 20 POP-EYED, skinny, pigeon-toed Jimmy Baldwin was nobody's idea of a popular political hero. He was black, homosexual, illegitimate, lonely, funny, a self-exiled aesthete whose literary master was...
 


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Essay Grade: 83%
The Mind of James Baldwin
472 words, approx. 2 pages
James Baldwin was a black homosexual who wrote some of the most indifferent yet sensitive works on the crippling effects of racism and homophobia on victims and perpetrators alike. Baldwin saw value in social and sexual relationships between black and white, and was watched by the FBI for his growing black militancy. His books deserved the enthusiastic reception they received in the dark days of southern vigilantes and northern liberal faint-hearts in the racist United States.


 

James Mark Baldwin

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