Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Large Hatred. It is Cleaver's thesis-as it is James Baldwin's, among others-that the root cause of racial prejudice in America is sexual. He argues that as a result of the Negro's years of servility, the black male has been systematically robbed of his masculinity. Thus "castrated," the Negro also has been denied his development as a positive intellectual and social force. There is nothing really very new in Cleaver's analysis or black militant ideology. There is the familiar castigating of white liberals, the spewing forth of raw and undigested hate...
...more textbook writers are honoring Negroes along with whites. Still more needs to be done, said New York's Representative James Scheuer, whose hearings are designed to call attention to his proposal for a federal Commission on Negro History and Culture. As it is, reported Author James Baldwin, the Negro child has a feeling "of no past, not really a present and certainly no future. It is a great national waste...
...expression. Not only did the Shaw students know and understand the tension, but they did everything in their power to bring this tension to the surface and express it without offending the white tutors. That tension which was felt and understood was not only viable then but as James Baldwin once uttered cryptically, "Every Negro American risks having the gates of paranoia close on him." It was indeed the paranoia which all blacks feel when they are around whites...
...sure who was manipulating whom. "Every Negro American," writes James Baldwin, "risks having the gates of paranoia close on him." They closed on everyone at Shaw. Shaw Negroes felt agonizing doubts as to whether the affronts they were attributing to us were real or imaginary. I began to feel the same doubts...
Robert Lantz's clients include such writers as James Baldwin, such occasional writers as Leonard Bernstein and non-writers as Mike Nichols. Lantz is particularly adept at movie roles. "You have to know the territory," he explains. "You must know the real dope -who is hot, who are the bankable elements of a deal, who has the ear of an important star or director. Everything is interrelated. Every work of art can be commercially exploited, can go into anything, become anything...