Foreword. The death of the prophet / Douglas Field
Introduction. Baldwin's radical imagination / Alice Mikal Craven and William E. Dow
Black bodies on screen, white privilege in Hollywood : James Baldwin on Lang and Preminger / Alice Mikal Craven
Picturing Jimmy, picturing self : James Baldwin, Beauford Delaney, and the color of light / James Smalls
Lessons in light : Beauford Delaney's and James Baldwin's "Unnameable objects" / Tyler T. Schmidt
"To end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country" : James Baldwin and the US civil rights movement / Kathy Roberts Forde
The documentary tradition in James Baldwin's Ecriture vérité / Isabelle Meuret
Journeys of the "I" in James Baldwin's literary-journalistic essays / William E. Dow
French Baldwin (on screen) : "Le criminel artiste" / Claudine Raynaud
The terror within : Giovanni's room, L'étranger, and the possibility of an absurd heroism / Timothy McGinnis
James Baldwin's black power : No name in the street, Fanon, Camus, and the Black Panthers / James Miller
Continuing a legacy : James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the African American witness / Marcus Bruce
Baldwin, the "Arab," and the end of the West / Bill V. Mullen
Effective/defective James Baldwin / Robert F. Reid-Pharr.