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James Baldwin鈥檚 arrival in Paris

In 1948, writer James Baldwin left the United States of America and moved to France. Baldwin scholar Magdalena Zaborowska reflects on how this transatlantic move gave the African-American writer a chance to see things differently.

Photo: James Baldwin (Louis Liotta/New York Post Archives /(c) NYP Holdings, Inc. via Getty Images)

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48 seconds