ENG364Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Erectile Dysfunction, Sexual Dysfunction, Castration
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Eng364 lecture 15: james baldwin & pat parker (01-29-20) Lives and writes in paris to avoid discrimination and segregation in the us: surveilled by cia for belief he was a threat as a supposed communist/terrorist, writing often critical of white americans for their racism. Perspective: writes through perspective of racist white police officer choice that shows how racism is learned through parenting, early experiences, epiphany within story where awareness is reached, not character"s but the reader" epiphany about source of jesse"s racism. Jesse thinks about sexual acts that he can do to a black woman but wouldn"t think of asking his white wife for. Going to meet the man : man as slang for police/authority, black males called boy citizenship and manhood tied to racial privilege. Body as sign of difference: baldwin claims that racism stems from whites having issues with physical differences of blacks, racial prejudice becomes projected implications of racial sex organs, e. g.
