Ian Bold, ‘Mad, bad and dangerous’, December 19th, 1980, p. 6-7,

Brief review of paperback of Just Above my Head published by Corgi:

‘James Baldwin is a more substantial writer, a conscious stylist, but he too is concerned with the ethics of escapism or, rather, the impossibility of escaping from ethnic roots. In Just Above my head (Corgi, £1.95) Baldwin places a personal odyssey into black consciousness in the context of the political reality of the racist south.’