I am grateful to Merrimack College for its generous support, including a Faculty Development Grant and subvention, which assisted in the completion and publication of this book. I want to thank my colleagues at Merrimack, especially Marie Plasse, Steven Scherwatzky, Ellen McWhorter, Emma Duffy-Comparone, and Sean Condon, for their friendship, encouragement, and belief in this project during its various stages. Thank you also to my colleagues and mentors at the University of Rochester, particularly Jeffrey Tucker, for feedback and suggestions in the early stages of researching and writing about James Baldwin. In addition, I want to thank the staff at the Houghton Library at Harvard University for their assistance and generosity. Viewing Baldwin's unpublished play, The Welcome Table, and related notes was one of the highlights of my research on the author. I express sincere gratitude as well to the people at the Harold F. Johnson Library at Hampshire College, and in particular Anne Macon, for allowing me access to archives and photos of Baldwin from his tenure there in the early 1980s.
Thank you to the academic journals that featured my work on Baldwin and allowed for its republication in this book. , titled To Crush the Serpent: James Baldwin, the Religious Right, and the Moral Minority, first appeared in the James Baldwin Review 2, no. 1 (November 2016). It is reproduced with permission from Manchester University Press.
I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to a number of James Baldwin scholars who were willing to look at early drafts, offer suggestions, and point me in helpful directions. In particular, I would like to thank Ed Pavlic, Douglas Field, D. Quentin Miller, Magdalena Zaborowska, and Justin A. Joyce. I am also very grateful to the anonymous readers of this manuscript who offered invaluable insights and feedback.
I would like to thank my familyTiffany, Sofi, and Judefor giving me the time, space, and support to write. And finally, thank you to James Baldwin, for the inspiration.
JOSEPH VOGEL is an assistant professor of English at Merrimack College. He is the author of Man in the Music: The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson.
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