James Baldwin and Britain

Nigel Dennis reviews Notes of a Native Son and Nobody Knows My Name

Source: The Sunday Telegraph

Feb 23, 1964: 11

‘Where do I belong?’, Nigel Dennis

Nigel Dennis reviews Notes of a Native Son and Nobody Knows My Name: ‘…whatever white Americans might argue, Mr Baldwin belonged in America. And whether the whites liked it or not, Mr Baldwin’s problems were tied up with their problems. Black and white Americans were brothers if only because they could never be Frenchmen’.