James Baldwin and the American Schoolhouse

摘要

Professor Grant's book, "James Baldwin and the American Schoolhouse" published (2021) Routledge, pp. 214, in which he develops a soliloquy story of James Baldwin's self-identity discovery, thoughtful analytical writings, and passionate speeches, which dissected systemic racism is a must-read for all teachers and teacher educators and others interested in the impact of racism on students. Professor Grant has revealed through his thorough and intriguing research of Baldwin's extensive papers and other artifacts that "knowledge is socially distribute, that what you know is what you have been allowed to know" (Boyer and Baptiste, 1996, p. 14). What Professor Grant uncovers in his book for the reader is an enormous amount of written thoughts and ideas shared by Baldwin as he connected with teachers and students. Most significantly his ideas for combatting systemic racism in our schools, especially schools serving "Black Students" have not received the distribution they disserved. Professor Grant's extensive research and collection of references and resources incorporated into this book provides a superior scholarly resource for all of us engaged in combatting racism in the United States of America. My deep appreciation to Professor Grant for providing a book with such enlightening knowledge of James Baldwin.