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James Baldwin's Understanding of Sex, Self-Knowledge and Power Demand Attention Now

No other American writer dissected the problem of the color line with such intimate and ferocious grace.



These are ripe times to read Baldwin. Not just the essays on racist policing; those are, in a way, too easy. “A Report From Occupied Territory,” which appeared in The Nation, burns hot a half-century after it was published. That its depiction of black vulnerability and police volatility could d

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“a woman who’d come of age in the 1990s mentioned “the unfinished business” of the sexual revolution: “What went wrong?” Even without a backlash, what went wrong is what always does: capitalism bit down, absorbed the liberationist impulse, mass-produced the sex but everywhere devalued knowledge, meaningful education, manifold reality; and liberationist forces were too besieged or internally at odds to withstand”
Joann Wypijewski, What We Don't Talk About: Sex and the Mess of Life

“the question of why America developed its particular habits of power, or why those persist; why it is so easy still for color to blind us, class to confuse us, sex and gender to trap us; why as a nation we are staggeringly cruel yet stubborn about our innocence; why love is so hard.”
Joann Wypijewski, What We Don't Talk About: Sex and the Mess of Life

“how widespread is the view that a criminal trial is not about determining facts and repairing the breach crime creates in the social fabric but about enlisting state power for the satisfaction of the aggrieved individual.”
Joann Wypijewski, What We Don't Talk About: Sex and the Mess of Life



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