The Evidence of Things not Said by Lawrie Balfour - 9780801486982

The Evidence of Things not SaidJames Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy\nAuthor(s): Lawrie Balfour\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801486982, 978-0801486982\nSynopsis\nThe Evidence of Things Not Said employs the rich essays of James Baldwin to interrogate the politics of race in American democracy. Lawrie Balfour advances the political discussion of Baldwin's work, and regards him as a powerful political thinker whose work deserves full [url] essays challenge appeals to race-blindness and formal but empty guarantees of equality and freedom. They undermine white presumptions of racial innocence and simultaneously refute theories of persecution that define African Americans solely as innocent victims. Unsettling fixed categories, Baldwin's essays construct a theory of race consciousness that captures the effects of racial identity in everyday [url] persuasively reads Baldwin's work alongs.