James Baldwin and Britain

Advert for A Rap on Race: James Baldwin and Margaret Mead, with quotes from Peter Worsley, The Guardian and Frederick Rapheal, Sunday Times (2)

Source: Ink

Advert for A Rap on Race: James Baldwin and Margaret Mead, University of Sussex Special collections, Ink, Special Issue: Repression Britain Part 1: 18 Aug 1971, p. 15.

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Worlsey quote: “These two are serious. They end up quite apocalyptic — and why shouldn’t they, dealing with the explosive subject of race at the height of their mature lives? Margaret “Can take any people in her arms”; “Everybody’s suffering is mine”, says Jimmy, as he prepares to go down with the Western ship. It all makes the Common Market seem parochial preoccupation of rich people. For it is not Rome that is burning but Chicago and Hanoi. That is why this book, by no means a marvellous one, is more relevant to our future than what passes just now as the stuff of politics.”