Word: baldwinism
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...NOBODY KNOWS MY NAME, his second book of essays, James Baldwin has done a rare thing. He has related, as nearly as is possible, what it is like to be colored...
...expect in such a book. They are exceptionally well done, but in the main could have been produced by any sensitive commentator, white or black. It is more the essays which deal with matters not usually thought of in reference to color that make the book so remarkable, because Baldwin discusses everything from a peculiar viewpoint...
Thus it is that he visits Ingmar Bergman and sees him as a Northern Protestant, a man reminiscent, incredibly enough, of "the black preachers of my childhood." In Norman Mailer, Baldwin finds a man who cannot give up what Baldwin terms "the myth of the sexuality of Negroes". Richard Wright to him is a tragic figure, a man who, by the time of his death, had estranged himself from American Negroes and who snubbed Africans, and so ended his life "wandering in a no-man's land between the black world and the white...
...Knapp, Don Kirkland, and Greg Baldwin--steady performers all season--should also finish near the top for the Crimson today...
...Nobody Knows My Name--Baldwin...