Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NONFICTION 1 . The Whole Truth and Nothing But, Hopper (1) 2. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (2) 3. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (6) 4. The Ordeal of Power, Hughes (3) 5. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson (4) 6. Forever Free, Adamson ( 10) 7. The Great Hunger, Woodham-Smith (7) 8. The Feminine Mystique, Friedan 9. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis 10. This Kind of War, Fehrenbach...
...Watermelon & Images. The Negro no longer can be controlled by white America's image of him. "This fact," says Baldwin, "has everything...
...change. I speak of change not on the surface but in the depths?change in the sense of renewal. But renewal becomes impossible if one supposes things to be constant that are not?safety, for example, or money, or power." The Negro can achieve the nation's destruction, says Baldwin, through "the abdication by Americans of any effort really to be free. The Negro can precipitate this abdication because white Americans have never, in all their long history, been able to look on him as a man like themselves...
...Fire & Pain. In the same terms, thanks to his newly assumed role of reluctant lecturer. Author Baldwin has now begun to exhort his own people to accept the past and learn to live with it. "I beg the black people of this country," said he last week, "to do something which I know to be very difficult: to be proud of the auction block, and all that rope, and all that fire, and all that pain...
...Whenever he walks onstage to address a crowd of whites or blacks, James Baldwin takes the microphone and cries: "Can you hear me? . . . Can you all hear me?" If he can make himself heard?in depths far beyond the capacity of the human ear ?everybody will know his name. And it won't be "Boy," and it won't be "Nigger...