- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 1963
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
Non-Fiction - Author:
- Outstanding Performances:
- None
- Premiss:
- The White Problem in America.
- Themes:
- Alienation
- Christianity
- Coming-of-age
- Courage
- Destiny
- Emotional repression
- Humanity
- Identity
- Loneliness
- Materialism
- Narcissism
- Personal change
- Political Correctness
- Redemption
- Republicanism
Self-belief Self-expression - Sexual Repression
- Solipsism
- Stereotyping
- White culture
- White guilt
- White supremacy
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Unknown
- Review Format:
- Book
Fascinating memoir of a Black man in the US; fully articulating the emptiness of White culture, its essentially-parasitic nature and the concomitant anger of Whites who can never step outside of it to achieve personal happiness. The White resentment this breeds is well-highlighted by the White desire to invent scapegoats upon whom to vent their never-ending frustration at White supremacy for not resulting in automatic and unworked-for fulfillment.
Baldwin writes with clarity and insight about his life, tempered by an understanding that makes sense of the decline of White culture, in this brilliant opuscule on White hypocrisy and the psychological failure borne of conflating the Personal/Private with the Political.
A classic explanation for the existence of anti-White supremacy groups like Al Qaeda & NAACP.
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