The New Yorker poetry editor Kevin Young reflects on James Baldwin’s “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” an essay that caused a sensation when it was published, in 1962, and has proved wildly influential ever since.
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“Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves,” James Baldwin wrote, in 1962. Revisit his definitive diagnosis of American race relations.
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James Baldwin was one of the most intelligent and clear-headed thinkers of the 20th century and most Americans today probably think that he’s just one of the Baldwin brothers.
I've addressed this already. Why? How about publishing An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce. Thought provoking. Genuine. Revelatory. Try it.
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