{"id":2990,"date":"2013-07-19T16:43:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T20:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2022-03-24T14:02:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T18:02:55","slug":"building-baldwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/building-baldwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Baldwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2991\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2991\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/07\/umblr_lyfdglWlfP1qf8801o1_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2991 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/07\/umblr_lyfdglWlfP1qf8801o1_1280-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"African-American writer James Baldwin\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/07\/umblr_lyfdglWlfP1qf8801o1_1280-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/07\/umblr_lyfdglWlfP1qf8801o1_1280-430x300.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/07\/umblr_lyfdglWlfP1qf8801o1_1280.jpg 703w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Baldwin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When he was invited to Kalamazoo College\u2032s campus in 1960, African-American writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/americanmasters\/episodes\/james-baldwin\/about-the-author\/59\/\">James Baldwin<\/a> knew he would be looking out at a mostly white audience. Kalamazoo College Professor of English <strong>Bruce Mills<\/strong> led a class this past year called \u201cBuilding the Archive: Baldwin and His Legacy.\u201d In the effort of rediscovering Baldwin\u2019s visit to campus, the class studied and enhanced the K campus\u2019 and Kalamazoo community\u2019s archives and deepened students\u2032 understanding of his writings.<\/p>\n<p>In order to build an archive of Baldwin\u2019s visit to K, Mill\u2032s students interviewed people who were in Kalamazoo during the civil rights movements and alumni who were present for Baldwin\u2019s speech. Interviews were made into a DVD\/CD and hard copy transcriptions. A copy of each interview set was given to the Colleges archives and to the South West Michigan Black Heritage Society.<\/p>\n<p>Many details from Baldwin\u2019s visit have been lost or misplaced throughout the years, even the date that he actually came. College records show that he came in February of 1960. But one interviewee, a 1964 K graduate, said that couldn\u2019t be correct. Also the front page of an <em>Index<\/em> student newspaper edition\u2014dated November 16,1960\u2014states \u201cNovelist Baldwin Arrives on Campus For Week.\u201d These are details that need to be further researched and rediscovered, said Mills.<\/p>\n<p>Mills\u2032s class read and discussed many books and essays by Baldwin, including the speech he gave at K, \u201cIn Search of a Majority.\u201d Baldwin\u2019s books, essays, and speeches are still relevant to K students, says Mills, because he discusses sexuality, religion, race, and living as a foreigner, topics still important to students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenge from Baldwin,\u201d said Mills, \u201cis to be who we say we are. The challenge is to listen. Keeping alive his legacy as a writer is the reason to archive. It is important to archive now, because our sources of information are slowly disappearing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story by <strong>Mallory Zink \u203215<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When he was invited to Kalamazoo College\u2032s campus in 1960, African-American writer James Baldwin knew he would be looking out at a mostly white audience. 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href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/americanmasters\/episodes\/james-baldwin\/about-the-author\/59\/\">James Baldwin<\/a> knew he would be looking out at a mostly white audience. Kalamazoo College Professor of English <strong>Bruce Mills<\/strong> led a class this past year called \u201cBuilding the Archive: Baldwin and His Legacy.\u201d In the effort of rediscovering Baldwin\u2019s visit to campus, the class studied and enhanced the K campus\u2019 and Kalamazoo community\u2019s archives and deepened students\u2032 understanding of his writings.<\/p>\n<p>In order to build an archive of Baldwin\u2019s visit to K, Mill\u2032s students interviewed people who were in Kalamazoo during the civil rights movements and alumni who were present for Baldwin\u2019s speech. Interviews were made into a DVD\/CD and hard copy transcriptions. A copy of each interview set was given to the Colleges archives and to the South West Michigan Black Heritage Society.<\/p>\n<p>Many details from Baldwin\u2019s visit have been lost or misplaced throughout the years, even the date that he actually came. College records show that he came in February of 1960. But one interviewee, a 1964 K graduate, said that couldn\u2019t be correct. Also the front page of an <em>Index<\/em> student newspaper edition\u2014dated November 16,1960\u2014states \u201cNovelist Baldwin Arrives on Campus For Week.\u201d These are details that need to be further researched and rediscovered, said Mills.<\/p>\n<p>Mills\u2032s class read and discussed many books and essays by Baldwin, including the speech he gave at K, \u201cIn Search of a Majority.\u201d Baldwin\u2019s books, essays, and speeches are still relevant to K students, says Mills, because he discusses sexuality, religion, race, and living as a foreigner, topics still important to students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenge from Baldwin,\u201d said Mills, \u201cis to be who we say we are. The challenge is to listen. Keeping alive his legacy as a writer is the reason to archive. It is important to archive now, because our sources of information are slowly disappearing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story by <strong>Mallory Zink \u203215<\/strong><\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13373,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions\/13373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}