Analyse Baldwin’s account of the tension between integrationist and separatist responses to racial injustice by Black Americans.

3500-Word Comparative Essay
What is Baldwins’ and Collins’ analysis of Racial injustice?

• Find a point of contrast
• Reflection: what’s interesting, confusing, wrong; find hooks.
• Addressing a central theme.
• It is a comparative essay, but it should not be descriptive. Create a
  theme/question based on their work.
• Demonstrate what’s interesting or confusing, etc
• The 2 chosen thinkers are provided below with its main themes and the
  sources are also given – please use the given sources + additional sources
  can be used if it gives value to the essay/argument.
  The Chosen Thinkers:
  1- James Baldwins
  His work: The fire next time
  • Analyse Baldwin’s account of the tension between integrationist and
  separatist responses to racial injustice by Black Americans.
  • Evaluate Baldwin’s analysis of the role of religion in fostering racial
  injustice in the United States.
  • Evaluate Baldwin’s claim that it is the duty of White and Black Americans
  to come together to overcome racial injustice.
  2- Patricia Hill Collins
  Her Work: Black Feminist Thought
  • Identify the meaning of “black feminist thought” and the reasons it has
  been obscured and marginalised in the context of American political
  thought – link to racial injustice.
  • Analyse the way that Black women’s oppression devalues their
  intellectual and political activism.
  To consider: What it feels like to the thinkers, their ideas, racial myths, letter to the
  nephew (fire next time) learn to love white despite, negative images, oppression,
  how society see/view black individuals and how black individuals see themselves,
  point of contrast: how to cope with racial injustice, have a relationship with white
  people despite the racial injustice, survival as a form of coping, Cope with
  oppression.
  Sources: James Baldwin
  Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time (London: Penguin, 2017).
  Brim, Matt. James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination (Ann Arbor: The University
  of Michigan Press, 2014).
  Drexler-Dreis, Joseph. “James Baldwin’s Decolonial Loves as Religious
  Orientation,” Journal of Africana Religions, Vol. 3, No. 3 (2015), 251-278.
  Field, Douglas. “Looking for Jimmy Baldwin: Sex, Privacy, and Black Nationalist
  Fervor,” Callaloo, Vol. 27, No. 2 (2004), 457-480.
  Field, Douglas. “Pentecostalism and All that Jazz: Tracing James Baldwin’s
  Religion,” Literature & Theology, Vol. 22, No. 4 (2008), 436-457.
  Lyne, Bill. “God’s Black Revolutionary Mouth: James Baldwin’s Black
  Radicalism,” Science & Society, Vol. 74, No. 1 (2010), 12-36.
  Marshall, Stephen. The City on the Hill from Below: The Crisis of Prophetic Black
  Politics (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011. See, Chapter 4: “(Making)
  love in the dishonorable City: The Civic Poetry of James Baldwin”.
  Norman, Brian. “Reading a ‘Closet Screenplay’: Hollywood, James Baldwin’s
  Malcolms and the Threat of Historical Irrelevance,” African American Review, Vol.
  39, No. ½ (2005), 103-118.
  Norman, Brian. “Crossing Identitarian Lines: Women’s Liberation and James
  Baldwin’s Early Essays,” Women’s Studies, Vol. 35, No. 3 (2006), 241-264.
  Ambar, Saladin. Reconsidering American Political Thought: A New Identity (New
  York and Oxon: Routledge, 2020). [Chapter Seven]
  *Collins, Patricia Hill. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the
  Politics of Empowerment (New York and London: Routledge, 2009). Especially,
  chapters 2, 5, and 9.
  Collins, Patricia Hill. “On Violence, Intersectionality and Transversal
  Politics,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 40, No. 9 (2017), 1460-1473.
  Forum. “Thinking Intersectionally with Patricia Hill Collins,” The Journal of
  Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 26, No. 2 (2012), 442-473.
  Kersch, Ken. American Political Thought: An Invitation (Cambridge and Medford:
  Polity, 2021). [Chapter Eight]
  Roundtable. “Patricia Hill Collins’ Black Sexual Politics,” Studies in Gender and
  Sexuality, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2008), 1-85.
  Symposia. “The Contributions of Patricia Hill Collins,” Gender & Society, Vol. 26,
  No. 1 (2012), 14-72.
  Symposia. “Patricia Hill Collins’s Black Feminist Thought,” Ethnic and Racial
  Studies, Vol. 18, No. 13 (2015), 2314-2354.
  Sources to Use: Patricia Hill Collins
  Austin, Algernon. “Theorizing Difference within Black Feminist Thought: The
  Dilemma of Sexism in Black Communities,” Race, Gender & Class, Vol. 6, No. 3
  (1999), 52-66.
  Chepp, Valerie. “Black feminist theory and the politics of irreverence: The case of
  women’s rap,” Feminist Theory, Vol. 16, No. 2 (2015), 207-226.
  Collins, Patricia Hill. From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and
  Feminism (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006).
  *Collins, Patricia Hill. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the
  Politics of Empowerment (New York and London: Routledge, 2009). Especially,
  chapters 10, 11, and 12.
  Collins, Patricia Hill. “Piecing Together a Genealogical Puzzle: Intersectionality and
  American Pragmatism,” European Journal of Pragmatism, Vol. 3, No. 2 (2011), 88-
  112.
  Cooper, Brittney C. “Love No Limit: Towards a Black Feminist Future (In
  Theory),” The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research, Vol. 45, No. 4
  (2015), 7-21.
  Dotson, Kristie, “Between Rocks and Hard Places: Introducing Black Feminist
  Professional Philosophy,” The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and
  Research, Vol. 46, No. 2 (2016), 46-56.
  James, V. Denise. “Musing: A Black Feminist Philosopher: Is That
  Possible? Hypatia, Vol. 29, No. 1 (2014), 189-195.
  Johnson, Latoya. “From the Anti-Slavery Movement to Now: (Re)Examining the
  Relationship Between Crticial Race Theory and Black Feminist Thought,” Race,
  Gender & Class, Vol. 22, Nos. 3-4 (2015), 227-243.
  Pérez, Michelle Salazar and Eloise Williams. “Black Feminist Activism: Theory as
  Generating Collective Resistance,” Multicultural Perspectives, Vol. 16, No. 3
  (2014), 125-132.