2025 JAMES BALDWIN LECTURE

The James Baldwin Lecture addresses issues connected to social, economic, and political justice and underpinnings in institutional racism. The lecture honors the late James Baldwin, who taught at UMass for several years. Offered every other year, the James Baldwin Lecture is co-presented by the the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, Department of History, and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. Read More. 

Steven Salaita is professor of English and comparative literature at the American University in Cairo. His most recent books are a memoir, An Honest Living, and a novel, Daughter, Son, Assassin. He writes at stevesalaita.com.  

Baldwin Lecture Contact: Professor Toussaint Losier, tlosier@umass.edu