The James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. In addition to these cutting-edge contributions, each issue contains a review of recent Baldwin scholarship and an award-winning graduate student essay. The James Baldwin Review publishes essays that invigorate scholarship on James Baldwin; catalyze explorations of the literary, political, and cultural influence of Baldwin's writing and political activism; and deepen our understanding and appreciation of this complex and luminary figure.
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It is the aim of the James Baldwin Review to provide a vibrant and multidisciplinary forum for the international community of Baldwin scholars, students, and enthusiasts.

CONTENTS

Introduction: Lorem Ipsum Paris - Justin A. Joyce, Douglas Field, and Dwight A. McBride

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Essays

1. I've Got a Testimony: James Baldwin and the Broken Silences of Black Queer Men - McKinley E. Melton

2. "To Crush the Serpent": James Baldwin, the Religious Right, and the Moral Minority - Joseph Vogel

3. Possessing History and American Innocence: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley, Jr., and the 1965 Cambridge Debate - Daniel Robert McClure

4. The Struggle of Integration: James Baldwin and Melanie Klein in the Context of Black Lives Matter - David W. McIvor

5. Watching Time: James Baldwin and Malcolm X - Mikko Tuhkanen

6. The Uses of Race and Religion: James Baldwin's Pragmatist Politics in The Fire Next Time - Courtney Ferriter

Dispatches
7. James Baldwin: Biographical Dispatches on a Freedom Writer - Phillip Luke Sinitiere

8. Relatively Conscious: The Enduring Rage of Baldwin and the Education of a White Southern Baptist Queer -Jon-Marc McDonald

Multi-Media Feature
9. Jimmy's Songs: Listening over James Baldwin's Shoulder - Ed Pavlic

Bibliographic Essay
10. Trends in James Baldwin Criticism 2001-10 - Lynn Orilla Scott

Conference Review
11. The Public James Baldwin - Herb Boyd

About the Author

Douglas Field is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century American Literature at the University of Manchester.

Justin A. Joyce is Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

Dwight A. McBride is Professor of African American Studies, English and Performance Studies at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.