James Baldwin and Britain

Baldwin referenced in Adam Lively's review of Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic and Small Acts

Source: London Review of Books

Vol. 16, No. 5, March 10, 1994

‘Fisticuffs’, Adam Lively

Adam Lively reviews The Black Atlantic and Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Culture by Paul Gilroy:

African-American writers have long peered into the recesses of the liberal psyche…JB for instance who had a profound personal feeling for the knot formed of race, religion and sexuality-returned again and again to the gulf between the black and the well-meaning white’.