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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction: Baldwin and His File after Black Lives Matter
Born-Again Baldwin
Filed-Again Baldwin
What’s in—and Not in—This Edition of the Baldwin File
Sources of Quotations in the Introduction
Permissions
Acknowledgments
James Baldwin’s FBI File, Sampled and Explained
1 Graphic Evidence: 1963, 1964, and 1966
2 Baldwin’s “Frech Accent” on African Independence: June 1961
3 Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad Praise Brother Baldwin: July 1961
4 Another Country as Obscene Specimen: September and October 1962
5 “What Do Our Files Show on James Baldwin?”: May 1963
6 Baldwin as Homosexual—and Public Enemy: May 1963
7 The White House Listens In: June 1963
8 The Bureau Prepares Its Counterattack: June 1963
9 Buckley versus Baldwin: June 1963
10 Another Country’s “Value to Students of Psychology and Social Behavior”: June, August, and September 1963
11 “Better Qualified to Lead a Homo-Sexual Movement than a Civil Rights Movement”: September 1963
12 Baldwin Baits J. Edgar Hoover—and Bureaucratic Hell Breaks Loose: September 1963
13 “Negroes Are Thinking Seriously of Assassinating Martin Luther King”: September 1963
14 The Bureau Reviews The Fire Next Time: October 1963
15 Photos of Baldwin in Selma: October 1963
16 A Falling Out with “Sexual Proclivities”: October 1963
17 The USIA Censors Baldwin: October 1963
18 Ask J. Edgar Hoover—Is Baldwin “A Known Communist?”: October 1963
19 J. Edgar Hoover Asks “Is Baldwin on Our Security Index?”: December 1963
20 The Biography of James Arthur Baldwin, “Security Matter”: December 1963
21 “A Dangerous Individual Who Could Be Expected to Commit Acts Inimical to the National Defense”: December 1963
22 “Hello, Baby, How Are You?”—FBI Sexual Linguistics: January 1964
23 Baldwin Meets a Deadline: January 1964
24 Baldwin Speaks—after “Robert Dillon [the] Beatnik Type Entertainer”: January 1964
25 Public Shaming through Public Sources: January 1964
26 The FBI Combs Baldwin’s Passport: February 1964
27 Signifying Nothing: February 1964
28 “An Attempt to Interview Him Could Prove Highly Embarrassing”: March 1964
29 Baldwin as COINTELPRO Audience: April 1964
30 The Bureau Stalks Baldwin on Broadway: May 1964
31 Baldwin and His “Aliases”: June 1964
32 The Blood Counters and Baldwin Countersurveillance, Part 1: June and July 1964
33 The Blood Counters and Baldwin Countersurveillance, Part 2: July 1964
34 “Isn’t Baldwin a Well Known Pervert?”—Hoover Weighs In: July 1964
35 Baldwin the Riot-Starter: July and August 1964
36 The Blood Counters and Baldwin Countersurveillance, Part 3: August 1964
37 Trashing Baldwin: September 1964
38 “Baldwin Will Quit U.S. if Goldwater Wins”: October 1964
39 Citizen Literary Criticism, Part 1: Texas on Another Country: January 1965
40 Citizen Literary Criticism, Part 2: Mississippi on Blues for Mister Charlie: April and May 1965
41 Buckley on “The Baldwin Syndrome”: June 1965
42 Where in the World Was James Baldwin?: March, April, and October 1966
43 Baldwin Reported to the Secret Service—the Author as Assassin: April 1966
44 White House Visits and Name Checks: May 1966
45 Sharing with the State Department—and the CIA: November and December 1966
46 FBI Internationalism in Action—Baldwin Traced and Translated in Turkey: November and December 1966
47 An Airline Source and a Pretext Interview: January 1967
48 Bureaucratic Discipline and the “Subject’s Eviction from an Apartment in Turkey for Homosexual Activities”: March and April 1967
49 Back in the USA—with a “Lookout” Waiting: September 1967
50 Of London, Baldwin’s New York “Wife,” and “Foreign Auto Sales”: December 1967
51 Baldwin and Other “Independent Black Nationalist Extremists”: January 1968
52 The Bureau of Accurate Statistics: February 1968
53 Clippers and Informers on The Life of Malcolm X: March 1968
54 “Two Separate Films on the Life of the Subject”: March 1968
55 The Problem with Paraphrase: April 1968
56 Baldwin the Black Panther: May 1968
57 Truman Capote, FBI Source, and James Baldwin, “Negro”: May and June 1968
58 Returning on a Jet Plane: July 1968
59 “Hostesses for This Party Wore Long African Style Clothes”—Baldwin Speaks for SNCC: August 1968
60 Flying the Coop and “Presently Checking His Baggage through Customs”: February and April 1969
61 Indiscreet Book Buying: July 1969
62 Baldwin in Other FBI Files: July 1969
63 “Baldwin’s Method of Working Is Strange”: December 1969
64 Citizen Literary Criticism, Part 3: California on The Fire Next Time: April 1970
65 Baldwin Testifies for “Sister Angela”—and the Bureau Relaxes Its Vigil: January, May, June, and August 1971
66 Rapping on A Rap on Race: April and September 1971
67 From the Security to the Administrative Index: April 1972
68 The Last Book Purchase—No Name in the Street: July 1972
69 The Last Translation—“L’Express Continues with James Baldwin”: August 1972
70 Baldwin off the Administrative Index—The FBI Says Goodbye: March 1974
Sources of Quotations in the Commentaries
Index to the Introduction and Commentaries
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