![]() ![]() ![]() The answer, Dupee wrote, is that “ince you have no other, yes and the better-disposed firemen will welcome your assistance.”īaldwin had abandoned criticism for prophecy and prescription for provocation, Dupee said. “Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?” Baldwin had written. Dupee (a former Communist Party organizer) took exception to Baldwin’s apocalyptic tone. Dupee of the Columbia English department. 1, 1963, was a review of Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time by F. ![]() The very first piece on the front page of the very first issue of The New York Review of Books, Feb. In Baldwin’s case, the liberal backlash was widespread, and effectively marginalized him for a time. So it is worth remembering that, at the very height of his influence, Baldwin experienced the same frustration that some Black activists, particularly on campus, feel about white liberals today: their refusal to acknowledge their complicity in the regime of white supremacy. In discussions about race relations today, the works of James Baldwin continue to speak to the present, even decades after they were written. ![]()
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