Guardian, July 23, 1964. p.6

‘Negro Revolt’ by SA exile Lewis Nkosi

About US civil rights movement. His analysis of black artists and writers within the movement places JB as earning his position as a popular black writer amongst white liberals (“a JB fad…") by first rejecting his authority to write about black lives. i.e. he didn’t want to be classed as a black writer – just a writer:

“In his best volume of essays, Notes of a Native Son, JB turned against the ‘literature of protest’ because, as he saw it, it rejected human complexity in favour of simple and sterile racial categories. He thought then that ‘the power of revelation’ was the business of the novelist.”

Nkosi gives further analysis of JB’s writing and its relation to anti-racism.