No Man’s Land
Several works of the twentieth century explore the concept of misplacement due to misguidance amongst the citizens of America. James Baldwin’s We Can Change the Country examines the state of African Americans in modern society due to the realization that the African American history being taught is false. Jacqueline Jones Royster’s When Your Voice is You Hear is Not Your Own explores the effects of a majority population expressing the experiences, emotions and opinions of a minority they cannot relate or connect to. The miseducation of African American history and culture has created an issue of identity in the United States.
Baldwin boldly declares to that there is a new crisis in 1963, that which is of an identity crisis. …show more content…
Royster then continues that this leads to acts of unkindness from the people who have an opportunity an authority to speak on a broader, larger platform. Furthermore, she continues that these acts of “seeing, knowing, being, and acting that probably suggest as much about the speaker and the context as they do about the targeted subject matter” (Royster 31). Baldwin’s piece undoubtedly syncs with Royster’s sentiments, with him proposing the concrete question of “if my place as it turns out, is not my place, then you are not who you said you were, and where is your place?” (Baldwin 61). Both works make note of the fact that a people that tries to reflect the cultural and life experiences of another more often than not explains more of them than the group they’re inaccurately
Several works of the twentieth century explore the concept of misplacement due to misguidance amongst the citizens of America. James Baldwin’s We Can Change the Country examines the state of African Americans in modern society due to the realization that the African American history being taught is false. Jacqueline Jones Royster’s When Your Voice is You Hear is Not Your Own explores the effects of a majority population expressing the experiences, emotions and opinions of a minority they cannot relate or connect to. The miseducation of African American history and culture has created an issue of identity in the United States.
Baldwin boldly declares to that there is a new crisis in 1963, that which is of an identity crisis. …show more content…
Royster then continues that this leads to acts of unkindness from the people who have an opportunity an authority to speak on a broader, larger platform. Furthermore, she continues that these acts of “seeing, knowing, being, and acting that probably suggest as much about the speaker and the context as they do about the targeted subject matter” (Royster 31). Baldwin’s piece undoubtedly syncs with Royster’s sentiments, with him proposing the concrete question of “if my place as it turns out, is not my place, then you are not who you said you were, and where is your place?” (Baldwin 61). Both works make note of the fact that a people that tries to reflect the cultural and life experiences of another more often than not explains more of them than the group they’re inaccurately