Reading James Baldwin Now: "No Name in the Street"

Novelist and cultural critic Darryl Pinckney offers a close reading of James Baldwin’s beautiful, blistering 1972 memoir of the events that forged his consciousness of race and identity: growing up in Harlem, the murders of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X, his long residence in France, his fateful decision to return to the American South. Library of America President and Publisher Max Rudin introduces the program and moderates the Q & A. (58:17)

Presented in partnership with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, the University of Houston, the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics & Writers (ALSCW), and the American Writers Museum.

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