There they (police officers) stood, in twos and threes and fours, in their Cub Scout uniforms and with their Cub Scout faces, totally unprepared, as is the way with American he-men, for anything that could not be settled with a club or a fist or a gun. Terrible how much this text is still relevant,...
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line" ισχυρίζεται ο W. E. B. DuBois.Τη συγκεκριμένη συλλογή απαρτίζουν δύο κείμενα, το πρώτο είναι ένα γράμμα του συγγραφέα προς τον ανηψιό του, με διδακτικό, συμβουλευτικό χαρακτήρα, εν είδει προετοιμασίας για τον λευκό κόσμο ο οποίο...
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line" ισχυρίζεται ο W. E. B. DuBois.Τη συγκεκριμένη συλλογή απαρτίζουν δύο κείμενα, το πρώτο είναι ένα γράμμα του συγγραφέα προς τον ανηψιό του, με διδακτικό, συμβουλευτικό χαρακτήρα, εν είδει προετοιμασίας για τον λευκό κόσμο ο οποίο...
The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin As I began to read the first of two letters in this brief book written in 1963, I was struck by the message which seemed to contain elements of hopeless resignation and self-loathing. It was a letter that outlined injustice and placed blame on many shoulders. It ope...
“...if the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.” “White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love th...
Between the letter James Baldwin addresses to his nephew and the "letter from a region in his mind" that follows it, there are so many questions, answers and comments that he brilliantly presents regarding some of the great social issues of the 1960’s. Today the characters have changed, but similar ...
First read in 2008.This book is so beautiful and clear. Baldwin has forced himself, against all the violence heaped upon him and those around him, not to see through hatred and think through hatred, which would be just after all. He outlines and touches on so many of the issues that are still real a...
Baldwin doles out some tough love to the American people, 100 years after Emancipation, and also writes to his 14-year old nephew about the race issue in America. I have never read any of Baldwin’s nonfiction so I was surprised at how frank and direct he was.The letter to the American people was mor...
Everybody should read this book. Not only because it is extremely written, not repetetive (like some essays can be), to the point and just bloody brilliant but above all because sadly it is still relevant. If you think that musings of a black gay man reflecting on America in the 50s somehow have not...
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