Carl A. Grant is Hoefs-Bascom Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and former Chair of the Afro American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

This book employs James Baldwin's essays and speeches to discuss how the effects of race and racism enter the souls of African American students and becomes attached and difficult to dislodge. Written for teacher educators, teachers and admires of Baldwin this text explores the important role Baldwin's work plays in schools and universities.

Author's Note: Exercising a New Voice?; Preface; One: Welcome to America Schoolhouse, James Arthur Baldwin ; Two: The Teacher within Him, James Arthur Baldwin; Three: Baldwin and Education: Purpose, Freedom, Defying Myth Making, Truth & Innocence; Four: "Go for Broke"; Five: Students be You: Developing Identity, Defying Place, Taking Role; Acknowledgements