By Allison Briscoe-Smith — 2016
The new Disney film raises tough questions about prejudice for parents and teachers to explore with children.
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I Am Not Your Negro shows how James Baldwin became disillusioned about the possibility of any peaceful resolution to racism, but underplays the force of his internationalist and anti-capitalist perspective.
Baldwin’s words explore what hatred can do not only to society at large but to the individual who bears it.
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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