Word: baldwinism
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...could this still be true, 30 years after Baldwin's novel? If the intensity of ill feeling between blacks and whites is the same these days, the causes are new. Many white people look at progress made and think African Americans have little excuse for complaint or for failure. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 secured them the vote; their number in the House of Representatives is close to their proportion of the population; the black middle class has grown so large that it constitutes nearly a third of black families; African Americans of stature and achievement are everywhere...
...limited to the post-Rodney King L.A.P.D., or to the California system of justice, or, at its broadest, to the American system of justice; but surely never to America as a whole. If the rage was vented on America as a whole, well, it could mean that James Baldwin had been right in Another Country, that African Americans can never feel at home at home...
...true that less has changed for the better in the past 30 years than white people have believed, or have wanted to believe, it is also true that the will to improve things, which was always strong, is strong still. Baldwin, who wrote Another Country, also wrote Notes of a Native Son. In it he described the day of his father's funeral...
...black American actor] has ever been seriously challenged to deliver the best that is in him. --James Baldwin The Devil Finds Work...
...glamorously seedy plot of David Ramus' new thriller, Thief of Light (HarperCollins; 291 pages; $23), that has the publishing world abuzz. It is the eerie similarity between the fictional story and that of the author. Ramus, a wan Alec Baldwin look-alike, is a first-time novelist with a potential best seller in his future, and also a possible prison sentence. Like his protagonist, in the '80s he was an art dealer with a fondness for heroin. By the '90s he had overcome his drug problems, but questionable business dealings left him with a $4 million debt and allegations...