Tag: James Baldwin
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Nation & World
How white supremacy became part of nation’s fabric
Historian Donald Yacovone chronicles racist values, historical falsehoods woven through textbooks in his new book.
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Nation & World
Writing Black lives
“Writing Black Lives,” a Radcliffe talk by three biographers that explored how the lives and work of three influential Americans — federal judge and activist Constance Baker Motley, playwright Lorraine Hansberry, and author James Baldwin — helped shape and are still shaping conversations around black politics, community, identity, and life.
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Nation & World
Picturing vision and justice
A meeting of experts and scholars from Harvard and beyond organized by assistant professor Sarah Lewis will “consider the role of the arts in understanding the nexus of art, race, and justice.”
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Nation & World
Picturing Harvard — and America
The first exhibit of the Arts Wing in the Smith Campus Center conveys what Harvard and the larger American community is and can be in terms of its makeup.
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Nation & World
A luminous vision for Harvard Yard
Artist Teresita Fernández discusses the installation she created for Harvard Yard, “Autumn (… Nothing Personal).”
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Nation & World
Unsettled by the bomb
A historian’s new book outlines the little-known role of black Americans in international campaigns to ban nuclear weapons.
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Nation & World
A close glimpse of James Baldwin
Houghton Library recently acquired its 3,000th American item, the typescript of an unproduced James Baldwin play — a rich tangle of the author’s obsessions in need of a scholar’s clarifying touch.