Analyse Baldwin’s account of the tension between integrationist and separatist responses to racial injustice by Black Americans.
Word Comparative Essay
What is Baldwins’ and Collins’ analysis of Racial injustice?
• Analyse Baldwin’s account of the tension between integrationist and separatist responses to racial injustice by Black Americans.
• Evaluate Baldwin’s analysis of the role of religion in fostering racial injustice in the United States.
• Evaluate Baldwin’s claim that it is the duty of White and Black Americans to come together to overcome racial injustice.
Her Work: Black Feminist Thought
• Identify the meaning of “black feminist thought” and the reasons it has been obscured and marginalised in the context of American political
thought – link to racial injustice.
• Analyse the way that Black women’s oppression devalues their intellectual and political activism.
To consider: What it feels like to the thinkers, their ideas, racial myths, letter to the
nephew learn to love white despite, negative images, oppression,
how society see/view black individuals and how black individuals see themselves,
point of contrast: how to cope with racial injustice, have a relationship with white
people despite the racial injustice, survival as a form of coping, Cope with
oppression.