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...college sophomore, I had a conversation with a fellow Crimson editor and ultimately--as is the case with most I'm-more-scholarly-than-you dialogues--we began discussing books. I told my co-worker the author I admire most is James Baldwin because he wrote my favorite book of all time Another Country. My comment was met with a blank stare. This person had no knowledge of who Baldwin...
...Baldwin handles the problem of being a Black artist in America in many of his novels including Another Country. Rufus is a drummer who kills himself because he can not escape the categorization as a Black artist, not just an artist. Rufus tries to live outside the label that others have given him but he fails. His frustration leads him to commit acts of violence against those he loves and eventually himself...
...problem were so simple! No, there is something wrong with our educational philosophy, and that in turn, reflects something disjointed at the center of our culture. Maybe as a nation we are still too young (an unbroken chain of our bests writers from James Fenimore Cooper to James Baldwin had to repair to the "Old World" to survive...
...current events, the book often resembles a hardbound USA Today. An untroubled Donald Trump appears, along with Wayne Gretzky, Jimmy Breslin and Oprah Winfrey. Parapsychology and the occult are given two massively illustrated layouts; the Holocaust merits less than half a page. In the section on American writers, James Baldwin stares out from a large color portrait, while Mark Twain is granted a small black-and- white snapshot, and Henry James is not seen at all, though oddly enough his house is. In the coverage of modern art, Georges Braque's painting is shown in black and white; Christo...
...response to Galtung's book, historian David Baldwin argued that sanctions had been effective in Rhodesia, because many long-suffering Blacks joined the insurgent National Liberation Front, which eventually toppled the dominant regime by military force. Thus, in the relatively short period of 12 years, sanctions were "successful." In fact, many academic proponents of economic sanctions uphold the case of Rhodesia as their single most successful application...