James Baldwin and Britain

Baldwin referenced in Michael Wood's review of Spike Lee's Malcolm X film

Source: London Review of Books

Vol.15, No 6, March 25 1993

‘St Malcolm Martyr’, Michael Wood

Michael Wood reviews Spike Lee’s Malcolm X film.

‘If, as JB suggested…a large part of the problem for many blacks is their internalising of the gaze and values of the whites…then a separate space is urgently needed, a zone beyond those watching eyes and easy liberalism of those who have nothing to lose…’