Books
July, 1971
It's been nearly a decade since James Baldwin startled white liberals with The Fire Next Time, in which he announced that white was joyless, black was beautiful and old dreams of racial integration were irrelevant. "Black has become a beautiful color," Baldwin explained in a typically unsentimental insight, "not because it is loved but because it is feared." Moreover, "White people cannot ... be taken as models of how to live. Rather, the white man is himself in sore nee...
