Monday, February 2, 2009
CAP Readings
Throughout this book it was very hard for me to read and keep focus on the book itself. But somehow I managed to get it read. In this book the author at the beginning is confused about who he is but than he accepts who he is. But to me this book seemed very racist he wrote about how bad white people were. That is one of the reasons why the book was hard to read. The author did have his reasons to bash white people though. In the time the book was written racism was running rampant through the United States. But the author was in Europe for a portion of the book trying to find out who he is. This society seems so alien to me in every community I have been to racism isnt even present. It was interesting for the first chapter or so than it became so hard to read I was barely able to do it... hopefully the next book is more enjoyable.
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What communities are these where racism is not present, so I can move there? Yes, Baldwin is writing about a different time, but that does not mean that everything about today's society is different. You are correct in seeing Baldwin coming to terms with his identity over the course of his narrative. But what he is saying about white people is not so much about individual people as it is about the country's social institutions that privilege whiteness. Ultimately, he does not reject these institutions that are central to our society, but by turning a critical eye on them, his intention is to help his readers see the problems so that they can help to fix them.
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