Baldwin’s later writing turned its lens on white people’s inner damage

Evidence

Baldwin found Dorothy Counts in the South, as well as Dr. King and many others. In No Name, he bore witness to their trauma, and to that of many other black people throughout the region as he told the true story about the civil rights movement. But Baldwin did not only bear witness to the trauma visited on black people; he also revealed the damage at the heart of white people who embraced the hate and caused the terror. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 187

Categorization

• XREF: This is the revisionist claim the reader is building toward: late Baldwin is not merely angry about white racism but diagnostically interested in what racism does to whites — related to the argument in James Baldwin’s own ‘No Name in the Street’ being recanonized. — connects to: Baldwin defined racism as the white problem, not the black problem — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 671