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...James Baldwin is an idealist, but he does not think in terms of black and white--or even in terms of Black and White. He stands apart from all the other writers on his subject matter. He is the personal philosopher of a movement of activists, poets and anti-white sociologists who himself falls under all three categories. The Price of the Ticket is an important collection because it illustrates the processes of transformation that Baldwin went through to establish his philosophy, a philosophy that ultimately denies the validity (though not the reality) of antagonism between Blacks and Whites...
...1960s. Many more blacks have stood side by side with Jews against bigotry than have stood against them. Yet lately some black ministers and politicians have sounded ambivalent about Farrakhan, praising the self-help program as valuable and treating the bigotry as a minor flaw. Writers such as James Baldwin and Richard Wright have warned that anti-Semitic feelings run deep in black communities, where Jewish shopkeepers and landlords were the only whites within reach and thus came to represent white oppression generally. Being anti-Semitic often seemed a way for blacks to join forces with the white Christian majority...
Only last month officials had told residents of both the Baldwin Hills area of Los Angeles and the Normal Heights neighborhood of San Diego to cut back the dense growth. Too few responded. In the Los Angeles inferno, three people were found dead, 52 houses were destroyed, and the property loss was estimated at $16 million. No one died in the San Diego fire, but 64 homes were burned out and the damage reached at least $8.5 million...
...both cities, the flames started in lowlands and raced up steep hills to devour homes on the high ground, many valued at $200,000 or more. Baldwin Hills is an affluent, predominantly black neighborhood, sometimes called "the black Beverly Hills." Its houses are mainly sprawling stucco structures or split-level residences less than 35 years old. When the flames came, they fed voraciously off the wood-shingled, bone-dry roofs. Fireballs danced from rooftop to rooftop, driven by the winds and creating fire-storm drafts of their...
...Harvard tradition would continue to dominate both the selection of material and the competitors. However, Harvard is different now than when the prize was bequested--women and minorities are among the population, and many more varieties of literature are read and taught. Pamela's passage underlined this change: the Baldwin selection was an account of the death of a young Black boy run over by a car full of drunken white men, and how this death affected the boy's family, and the next generation, and their feelings about white men. The judges' recognition of more than traditional material...