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Discussione sulla razza: Sciogliere i nodi su storia, culture e razzismi
Discussione sulla razza è un confronto fra l’antropologa bianca Margaret Mead e lo scrittore Nero James Baldwin che assume il valore di un’eccezionale testimonianza. Il volume si presenta come una conversazione lunga e approfondita che segue un andamento dall’adagio al mosso e al movimentato per arrivare allo scontro serrato e intenso. È un dibattito che tocca tutti i temi della scottante attualità politica e culturale, dove protagonista assoluto è il dramma razziale e il suo riverbero sulla tormentata coscienza umana. Il tema del razzismo è però declinato e analizzato in tutte le sue sfumature, tanto da divenire un sistema interpretativo utile a leggere ogni forma di potere in cui si esercita il sopruso e la violenza sugli i bianchi sui Neri, ma anche le società ricche su quelle povere, gli uomini sulle donne, i Paesi avanzati su quelli arretrati.
Queste due grandi personalità della scena culturale internazionale non solo di ieri offrono il meglio di sé, mettendo a fuoco in modo inquietante e drammatico la problematica sociale, morale e politica dalla violenza nei ghetti alla contestazione giovanile, dal consumo esasperato di droga all’inquinamento ambientale, dalla radicalizzazione della lotta politica alla questione dell’insicurezza e del logorio delle istituzioni… Mead e Baldwin attingono dalle loro esperienze personali per suggerire come costruire una società migliore retta dall’uguaglianza.
Queste due grandi personalità della scena culturale internazionale non solo di ieri offrono il meglio di sé, mettendo a fuoco in modo inquietante e drammatico la problematica sociale, morale e politica dalla violenza nei ghetti alla contestazione giovanile, dal consumo esasperato di droga all’inquinamento ambientale, dalla radicalizzazione della lotta politica alla questione dell’insicurezza e del logorio delle istituzioni… Mead e Baldwin attingono dalle loro esperienze personali per suggerire come costruire una società migliore retta dall’uguaglianza.
257 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 30, 2022
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James Baldwin
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Works of American writer James Arthur Baldwin, outspoken critic of racism, include Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), a novel, and Notes of a Native Son (1955), a collection of essays.
James Arthur Baldwin authored plays and poems in society.
He came as the eldest of nine children; his stepfather served as a minister. At 14 years of age in 1938, Baldwin preached at the small fireside Pentecostal church in Harlem. From religion in the early 1940s, he transferred his faith to literature with the still evident impassioned cadences of black churches. From 1948, Baldwin made his home primarily in the south of France but often returned to the United States of America to lecture or to teach.
In his Giovanni's Room, a white American expatriate must come to terms with his homosexuality. In 1957, he began spending half of each year in city of New York.
James Baldwin offered a vital literary voice during the era of civil rights activism in the 1950s and 1960s.
He first partially autobiographically accounted his youth. His influential Nobody Knows My Name and The Fire Next Time informed a large white audience. Another Country talks about gay sexual tensions among intellectuals of New York. Segments of the black nationalist community savaged his gay themes. Eldridge Cleaver of the Black Panthers stated the Baldwin displayed an "agonizing, total hatred of blacks." People produced Blues for Mister Charlie , play of Baldwin, in 1964. Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, defended Baldwin.
Going to Meet the Man and Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone provided powerful descriptions. He as an openly gay man increasingly in condemned discrimination against lesbian persons.
From stomach cancer, Baldwin died in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France. People buried his body at the Ferncliff cemetery in Hartsdale near city of New York.
Works of American writer James Arthur Baldwin, outspoken critic of racism, include Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), a novel, and Notes of a Native Son (1955), a collection of essays.
James Arthur Baldwin authored plays and poems in society.
He came as the eldest of nine children; his stepfather served as a minister. At 14 years of age in 1938, Baldwin preached at the small fireside Pentecostal church in Harlem. From religion in the early 1940s, he transferred his faith to literature with the still evident impassioned cadences of black churches. From 1948, Baldwin made his home primarily in the south of France but often returned to the United States of America to lecture or to teach.
In his Giovanni's Room, a white American expatriate must come to terms with his homosexuality. In 1957, he began spending half of each year in city of New York.
James Baldwin offered a vital literary voice during the era of civil rights activism in the 1950s and 1960s.
He first partially autobiographically accounted his youth. His influential Nobody Knows My Name and The Fire Next Time informed a large white audience. Another Country talks about gay sexual tensions among intellectuals of New York. Segments of the black nationalist community savaged his gay themes. Eldridge Cleaver of the Black Panthers stated the Baldwin displayed an "agonizing, total hatred of blacks." People produced Blues for Mister Charlie , play of Baldwin, in 1964. Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, defended Baldwin.
Going to Meet the Man and Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone provided powerful descriptions. He as an openly gay man increasingly in condemned discrimination against lesbian persons.
From stomach cancer, Baldwin died in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France. People buried his body at the Ferncliff cemetery in Hartsdale near city of New York.
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