This library course guide will introduce you to the Library's resources which may inform and support your research your project in Professor Pennino's class on James Baldwin.
Required texts:
The following are by James Baldwin and grouped by genre:
Fiction – Giovanni’s Room (1956), Go Tell It on the Mountain (1952), Going to Meet the Man (stories; 1948-65) If Beale Street Could Talk (1974).
Non-Fiction – The Devil Finds Work (1976), The Fire the Next Time (1976), Nobody Knows My Name (1961).
The following are by other authors:
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Films:
I Am Not Your Negro directed by Raoul Peck
If Beale Street Could Talk directed by Barry Jenkins
Research Paper: 13-15 pages. Eight sources (some of them from peer-reviewed journals). MLA format. You have a choice to either a.) do an in-depth analysis of one of the works we studied this semester or b.) to use Baldwin’s critical methodology to evaluate a modern or contemporary American cultural phenomenon.