Common Read 2021: The Fire This Time
James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time
The Fire Next Time by Call Number: Ebook (1 simultaneous user); MH Stacks E185.61.B195 1995ISBN: 0679601511Publication Date: 2021-07-06
There are also copies of The Fire Next Time available via the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/firenexttime00bald
https://archive.org/details/firenexttime00bald_0
https://archive.org/details/firenexttime0000unse
https://archive.org/details/firenexttime00jame_2xq
https://archive.org/details/firenexttime00baldrich
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James Baldwin, "Fifth Avenue, Uptown," Esquire (Oct 16, 2007), quoted by Garnette Cadogan in The Fire This Time, 143
"I Am Not Your Negro: James Baldwin and Race in America," streaming video on Kanopy (MHC login required), 2016, 94 minutes
Notes of a Native Son by Call Number: MH Stacks E185.61 .B2 2012ISBN: 9780807006115Publication Date: 2012-11-20
A Political Companion to James Baldwin by Call Number: EbookISBN: 9780813169934Publication Date: 2017-11-15
Begin Again by Call Number: MH Stacks E184.A1 G554 2020ISBN: 9780525575320Publication Date: 2020-06-30
Read about James Baldwin's visit to Mount Holyoke in December 1985 (Mount Holyoke News). Search the student newspaper collection for other references to James Baldwin.
Historical and cultural background
- Demonstration, Exposition, Exhibition: A View of Mount Holyoke Student ActivismThis exhibition presents a wide variety of student activism topics ranging chronologically from the late 1960s to the present. The subjects include the development of a Black Studies program at Mount Holyoke College, hatred directed toward lesbian and bisexual students, apartheid and divestment concerns in the 1980s, curricular changes, reproductive rights, and finally, contemporary contention surrounding the presence of trans students on campus.
- The 1619 Project reading guide (Common Read 2020)The 1619 Project, led by New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, is a re-examination of the legacy of slavery in America. In August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans in Virginia, the newspaper launched the project with a special issue of the New York Times Magazine. Selected essays and literary works from that special issue were the 2020 Common Read.
- Persistence and Existence: LGBTQ History at Mount Holyoke CollegeThis exhibit exists to bring to light the numerous histories of queer culture on the Mount Holyoke campus and to show the necessary change over time that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning student organizations underwent.
Lorraine Hansberry, "The Black Revolution and the White Backlash," 1964 [Sameer Rao, Colorlines, May 16, 2016]
Portsmouth African Burying Ground, Portsmouth, NH, in honor of those forgotten
At God's Little Acre, Clues to the African American History of Newport, RI, a closer look at the intricately carved stones of a centuries-old burying ground
Bob Drinkwater, In Memory of Susan Freedom: Searching for Gravestones of African Americans in Western Massachusetts
David Ruggles Center for History and Education, Florence, MA
Documenting the Early History of Black Lives in Connecticut River Valley, website presented by the Pioneer Valley History Network, the UMass Amherst Public History Program, and the UMass Amherst W.E.B. Du Bois Library, with support from Mass Humanities and the UMass Amherst Public Service Endowment Grant
The Age of Phillis by Call Number: MH Stacks PS3560.E365 A74 2020ISBN: 9780819579492Publication Date: 2020-03-03
The Trials of Phillis Wheatley by Call Number: ebook and MH Stacks PS866.W5 Z595 2003ISBN: 0465027296Publication Date: 2003-04-15
Racial Reconciliation and the Healing of a Nation by Call Number: ebook and MH Stacks E185.615 .R21426 2017ISBN: 9781479844630Publication Date: 2017-10-24
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Call Number: MH Stacks E185.F625 2021ISBN: 9780593134047Publication Date: 2021-02-02
Counting Descent by Call Number: MH Stacks PS3619.M5727 A6 2016ISBN: 9781938912658Publication Date: 2016-09-15
Chronicling Stankonia : the rise of the hip-hop South by Call Number: ebookISBN: 1469661985Publication Date: 2021
