James Baldwin and Britain

‘Old frontier, new perils’, Peregrine Worsthorne

Source: The Sunday Telegraph

Aug 25 1963: 12

‘Old frontier, new perils’, Peregrine Worsthorne

‘No wonder that in recent years white guilt and black anger, both dramatically fanned by the superb rhetoric of JB – possibly as much a key figure in the colour revolution as Karl Marx was in the class revolution – have combined to create a situation of explosive danger’.