With preexisting knowledge about the corrupt nature and ignorance during the 1960s, race revolutionized a culture so imminent that it left society in a primarily black and white world, crippling society, yet leaving it hopeful in the words of writer James Baldwin.
James Baldwin’s Fire Next Time presented readers with insight in how race became a significant determining factor from a broad perspective, referring to how people were viewed and treated in society in the United States in the 1960s. During that era, race was described as the arrangement of humans into groups based on ancestry, physical characteristics, and traits. Described as such, race in the 1960s became an extremely formative and debatable term, usually depending on the perspective on the race. In James Baldwin’s Fine Next Time, during the 1960s in the United States, readers were introduced to the power race held. Readers were also able to recognize how race openly exposed common errors in society and how race manifested the people of the United States into a fearful, separated, black and white nation. …show more content…
In the 1960s, the United States, primarily presented a separated, black and white nation. In Baldwin’s book, he said, “…white men in America [did] not behave toward black men the way they [behaved] toward each other” (Pg 53). He was referring to the exchange of treatment that whites gave one another. There was absolutely less discrimination than if they were white, and blacks were black, separation was the result of the two races turning against one another, which eventually led to discrimination. Consequently, “People are not…terribly anxious to be equal [,] but they love the idea of being superior,” and that is an important factor causing people, mainly white men, to discriminate against blacks (Pg 88). However, Baldwin did not believe those times in the 1960s could not change; he had hoped for better, although certain person’s perspectives on race created
James Baldwin’s Fire Next Time presented readers with insight in how race became a significant determining factor from a broad perspective, referring to how people were viewed and treated in society in the United States in the 1960s. During that era, race was described as the arrangement of humans into groups based on ancestry, physical characteristics, and traits. Described as such, race in the 1960s became an extremely formative and debatable term, usually depending on the perspective on the race. In James Baldwin’s Fine Next Time, during the 1960s in the United States, readers were introduced to the power race held. Readers were also able to recognize how race openly exposed common errors in society and how race manifested the people of the United States into a fearful, separated, black and white nation. …show more content…
In the 1960s, the United States, primarily presented a separated, black and white nation. In Baldwin’s book, he said, “…white men in America [did] not behave toward black men the way they [behaved] toward each other” (Pg 53). He was referring to the exchange of treatment that whites gave one another. There was absolutely less discrimination than if they were white, and blacks were black, separation was the result of the two races turning against one another, which eventually led to discrimination. Consequently, “People are not…terribly anxious to be equal [,] but they love the idea of being superior,” and that is an important factor causing people, mainly white men, to discriminate against blacks (Pg 88). However, Baldwin did not believe those times in the 1960s could not change; he had hoped for better, although certain person’s perspectives on race created