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Letter from a Region in My Mind

By James Baldwin — 1962

“Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.”

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The History that James Baldwin Wanted America to See

As both James Baldwin and Martin Luther King, Jr., insisted, America is an identity that white people will protect at any cost, and the country’s history—its founding documents, its national heroes—is the supporting argument that underpins that identity.

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Racism