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  • None of them had read Go Tell It on the Mountain, though, as did everyone else in the late 1960s, they knew what the name James Baldwin stood for.

    On James Baldwin (1924–1987) Pinckney, Darryl 1988

  • The film is in essence a monologue occasionally intercut with archive footage of 70s New York and heroes such as James Baldwin, as Lebowitz expounds on . . . well, just about everything.

    The Guardian World News Lucy Mangan 2011

  • Throughout his career, Norse was unabashed about his sexual orientation and served as a literary beacon in the gay community, befriending many well-known gay authors such as James Baldwin, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, and Anaïs Nin.

    Daily News 2009

  • The "glitch," which company representatives later called an "embarrassing and ham-fisted cataloging error," targeted literary classics such as James Baldwin's

    VQR 2009

  • Classics such as James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, Annie Proulx's

    Rod 2.0:Beta 2009

  • Mosley] has left the mystery genre for territory reminiscent of writers such as James Baldwin [and] Richard Wright … [with] passages of ghostly beauty that rival the best of William Kennedy in his Ironweed trilogy ….

    RL’s Dream Walter Mosley 1995

  • E. B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, and more recent scholars such as Robin D. G. Kelley, David Roediger, Saidiya Hartman, and Roderick Ferguson have suggested, the relatively liberated character of black American culture might very well have been the result of the fact that for most if not all of their history, African Americans have been to some degree excluded from citizenship and therefore far less likely to internalize its repression.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • I guess James Baldwin and Toni Morrison are not on those bookshelves featured so prominently.

    Michael Giltz: Theater: "Stick Fly" Doesn't Stick Michael Giltz 2011

  • I guess James Baldwin and Toni Morrison are not on those bookshelves featured so prominently.

    Michael Giltz: Theater: "Stick Fly" Doesn't Stick Michael Giltz 2011

  • It's about what's on the bottle, said James Baldwin , Dr Pepper Snapple's general counsel.

    Dr Pepper vs. Dr Pepper: Sweet Business Turns Bitter Mike Esterl 2011

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