James Baldwin

James Baldwin is a person.

• See: Human Sexuality, LGBT Social Movement, Social Critic, Notes of a Native Son, Racism, The Fire Next Time, No Name in The Street, The Devil Finds Work, Remember This House, No Name in the Street.

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References

2017

• (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin Retrieved:2017-8-10.
  • James Arthur "Jimmy" Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American writer and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America. Some of Baldwin's essays are book-length, for instance The Fire Next Time (1963), No Name in the Street (1972), and The Devil Finds Work (1976). An unfinished manuscript, Remember This House, was expanded upon and adapted for cinema as the Academy Award-nominated documentary film I Am Not Your Negro. Baldwin's novels and plays fictionalize fundamental personal questions and dilemmas amid complex social and psychological pressures thwarting the equitable integration not only of African Americans, but also of gay and bisexual men, while depicting some internalized obstacles to such individuals' quests for acceptance. Such dynamics are prominent in Baldwin's second novel, Giovanni's Room, written in 1956, well before the gay liberation movement.

1972

• (Baldwin, 1972) ⇒ James Baldwin. (1972). “No Name in the Street."
  • QUOTE: … All the western nations are caught in a lie, the lie of their pretended humanism: this means that their history has no moral justification, and that the West has no moral authority. …

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