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Baldwin's life and legacy as remembered by a pantheon of artists and writers: from Jamaica Kincaid and Barry Jenkins to Richard Avedon and Alice Neel When author James Baldwin died in 1987, he left behind an extraordinary body of work: novels, poems, film scripts and, perhaps most indelibly, essays.... Read More about God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin

It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls "melancholy historicism"--a kind of crime scene investigation in which the forensic imagination is directed towa... Read More about None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life (Theory Q)

In this study of literature and law before and since the Civil War, Stephen M. Best shows how American conceptions of slavery, property, and the idea of the fugitive were profoundly interconnected. The Fugitive's Properties uncovers a poetics of intangible, personified property emerging out of anteb... Read More about The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession

In this study of literature and law before and since the Civil War, Stephen M. Best shows how American conceptions of slavery, property, and the idea of the fugitive were profoundly interconnected. The Fugitive's Properties uncovers a poetics of intangible, personified property emerging out of anteb... Read More about The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession

It passes for an unassailable truth that the slave past provides an explanatory prism for understanding the black political present. In None Like Us Stephen Best reappraises what he calls "melancholy historicism"--a kind of crime scene investigation in which the forensic imagination is directed towa... Read More about None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life (Theory Q)