Table of Contents
Series Foreword Patrick J. Deneen vii
Introduction Susan J. McWilliams 1
Part I Collective Consciousness and Community
1 "A Most Disagreeable Mirror": Race Consciousness as Double Consciousness Lawrie Balfour 19
2 The Race of a More Perfect Union: James Baldwin, Segregated Memory, and the Presidential Race P. J. Brendese 48
3 James Baldwin and the Politics of Disconnection Susan J. McWilliams 94
4 What William F. Buckley Jr. Did Not Understand about James Baldwin: On Baldwins Politics of Freedom Nicholas Buccola 116
Part II Prophecy, Religion, and Truth
5 Baldwin, Prophecy, and Politics George Shulman 151
6 The Negative Political Theology of James Baldwin Vincent Lloyd 171
7 Go Tell It on the Mountain: James Baldwin and the Politics of Faith Wilson Carey McWilliams 195
Part III The Individual Life, the Interior Life, the Unexamined Life
8 Socrates in a Different Key: James Baldwin and Race in America Joel Alden Schlosser 219
9 Crossing Identitarian Lines: Women's Liberation and James Baldwin's Early Essays Brian Norman 247
10 "Where the People Can Sing, the Poet Can Live": James Baldwin, Pragmatism, and Cosmopolitan Humanism Ulf Schulenberg 270
11 Baldwin's Individualism and Critique of Property Jack Turner 301
Part IV Violence and Vision
12 James Baldwin on Violence and Disavowal Lisa Beard 337
13 James Baldwin and Black Lives Matter Eddie S. Glaude Jr. 361
14 "Tell Him I'm Gone": On the Margins in High-Tech City Rachel Brahinsky 373
Acknowledgments 399
Selected Bibliography 401
List of Contributors 405
Index 409