Baldwin’s Maynard writing anticipated academic carceral studies.

Evidence

Baldwin devoted a number of pages in No Name to describing the details of the case and recounting his efforts to exonerate Maynard. In doing so, he offered, perhaps, one of the first accounts of what would become known as carceral studies, putting into stark relief the systemic racial bias in the American criminal justice system. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 524

Categorization

• XREF: Bolsters the reader’s recanonization case: late Baldwin’s No Name anticipates a whole academic field.