James Baldwin

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He came up in another thread a while back, but the search function isn't throwing it up so seems as good a time as any to make one. They've got I Am Not Your Negro up on iPlayer atm...

BBC Four - Arena, I Am Not Your Negro

How the images and reality of black lives in America today are fabricated and enforced.

www.bbc.co.uk

... some of his essays have been republished/recirculating online...

James Baldwin: Letter from a Region in My Mind

From 1962: “Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.”

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If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?

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Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White

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... and apparently his books are flying off the shelves, along with a bunch of other black authors'.

 

[jenks]

Watched I Am Not Your Negro the other night - the footage of him on talk shows and at the Oxford Union are particularly affecting - clearly the brightest guy in the room having to explain to his white audience how racism works. He has a dignity and quiet rage yet an utterly articulate manner in answering his questioners. Intercutting recent film only adds to the overall poignancy.

 

[Murphy]

The Artist’s Struggle For Integrity is an assault on the gates of enlightenment. Heard excerpts in various mixes for decades and it always punches through the crap of life. This clip is succinct enough to summarise

 

[sufi]

He came up in another thread a while back, but the search function isn't throwing it up so seems as good a time as any to make one. They've got I Am Not Your Negro up on iPlayer atm...

BBC Four - Arena, I Am Not Your Negro

How the images and reality of black lives in America today are fabricated and enforced.

www.bbc.co.uk

... some of his essays have been republished/recirculating online...

James Baldwin: Letter from a Region in My Mind

From 1962: “Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.”

www.newyorker.com

If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?

archive.nytimes.com

Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White

movies2.nytimes.com

... and apparently his books are flying off the shelves, along with a bunch of other black authors'.

Give search another try? You can cross refer

 

[catalog]

i really enjoyed 'another country', wouod highly recommend, but i've not read anything further.

there's another i was looking at, the one that was his breakout novel, about his dad, i think that sounds really good.

 

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I have always been struck, in America, by an emotional poverty so bottomless, and a terror of human life, of human touch, so deep, that virtually no American appears able to achieve any viable, organic connection between his public stance and his private life. …

This failure of the private life has always had the most devastating effect on American public conduct, and on black-white relations. If Americans were not so terrified of their private selves, they would never have become so dependent on what they call “the Negro problem.”