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Posted On: August 27th 2026, 12:20 pm
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At the 1978 Langston Hughes Festival at @ccnycitycollege , JB turns the idea of whiteness inside out.
His argument is not simply about skin color. He asks us to consider how people who once understood themselves as French, English, Italian, Greek, Russian—and so on—came to understand themselves through a new collective identity: white.
And, as JB so often does, he moves from history to the moral question beneath it. If whiteness had to be created, what did its creation require—and what has been required to sustain it?
Then he leaves us with Malcolm:
“White is a state of mind.”
#jamesbaldwin #jamesbaldwintaughtme #blackculture #blackliterature fortheculture
・・・
At the 1978 Langston Hughes Festival at @ccnycitycollege , JB turns the idea of whiteness inside out.
His argument is not simply about skin color. He asks us to consider how people who once understood themselves as French, English, Italian, Greek, Russian—and so on—came to understand themselves through a new collective identity: white.
And, as JB so often does, he moves from history to the moral question beneath it. If whiteness had to be created, what did its creation require—and what has been required to sustain it?
Then he leaves us with Malcolm:
“White is a state of mind.”
#jamesbaldwin #jamesbaldwintaughtme #blackculture #blackliterature fortheculture
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