“A #history professor who leads a course on genocide was instructed not to mention atrocities committed against Native Americans, according to several academy officials. The English department purged works by well-known Black authors, such as #ToniMorrison, #JamesBaldwin and #TaNehisiCoates, the officials said.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/us/politics/west-point-hegseth-culture-wars.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Fk8.O5Jr.AnHC5rwItZPR&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=g

Another Country

Finished reading this 1962 novel by James Baldwin and it has found a place among my favorite titles of all time

Another Country

Finished reading this 1962 novel by James Baldwin and it has found a place among my favorite titles of all time - including Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz, A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, The Blood of Others and The Mandarins, both by Simone de Beauvoir and The Children of Violence Series by Doris Lessing ... The thread that I find binds these works is a collection of characters who are fully realized by the authors and are making decisions amid the turmoil of their given times and environment, based on their individual traits, rather than simply as a vehicle for a story the writer wants to tell.
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Reading: Another Country by James Baldwin (1962) Reading Goals: Read every novel by James Baldwin by the end of the year. #Books #BookSky #Reading #JamesBaldwin

"If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected—those, precisely, who need the law’s protection most!—and listens to their testimony." ― #JamesBaldwin #BlackHistory

Quote from James Baldwin
#jamesbaldwin #quote #socialjustice #elbowsup #fightoligarchy

Meine aktuellen Lektüren, frisch angefangen und schon wieder sehr begeistert:)

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Strangers faces hold no secrets because the imagination does not invest them with any. But the face of a lover is an unknown precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

---- #JamesBaldwin, #AnotherCountry

Reading: Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (1956) Goals: Read every novel by James Baldwin in 2025. #Books #BookSky #JamesBaldwin

You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't... The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
-- James Baldwin

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My friend @peteorrall said “experiencing joy is radical.” I’ve heard variations of that about happiness, laughter, and love.

They’re right. The oppressors want us sick and miserable.

Look to people who have been oppressed en masse. While they do have breaking points, they emerge because of their ability to love, laugh, and smile.

Be radical. Find joy. Find love. Find laughter.

„Denn alle Polizisten waren schlau genug zu wissen, für wen sie arbeiteten, und nirgendwo auf der Welt arbeiteten sie für die Machtlosen.“ #JamesBaldwin. #Polizeigewalt #ViolencesPolicières

James Baldwin lived in Istanbul from 1961 to 1971, and in this stunning film recording he is sailing along the Bosphorus Strait, the liquid border separating Europe and Asia, and that connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara.

Love that pic

1/2: Today is the 60th anniversary of #JamesBaldwin vs. William Buckley debating at #Cambridge the question "Is the #AmericanDream at the expense of the #American Negro?"

I urge you to watch the full debate below, not only to witness #Baldwin's extraordinary oratory skills, his emotional intelligence & foresight, but also to suffer the pretentious, prejudiced & wildly unaware argument of Buckley, which explains the wilful laisser-faire attitude to #whitesupremacy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFeoS41xe7w