“Each of Us Contains the Other”

A Polish scholar based and naturalized in the United States explores more than two decades of her international, archival work on James Baldwin in the context of the writer’s late years and little-known visit to speak on global racism in the Soviet Union in 1986. Zaborowska embraces Baldwin’s philosophy of “Black queer humanism” as his most important legacy while recalling her own passion for literature, story of immigration, and transatlantic professional and personal lives.