Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Hmm …

The book that rocked a nation: Another Look takes on James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time. Join us on March 5! | The Book Haven.



He claimed in the longer essay that white men project their fears and their longings onto African Americans. “The only way he can be released from the Negro’s tyrannical power over him is to consent, in effect, to become black himself, to become part of that suffering and dancing country that he now watches wistfully from the heights of his lonely power and, armed with spiritual traveller’s checks, visits surreptitiously after dark.”
Sorry. I don't buy it.

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