Tweets of a Native Son: The Quotation and Recirculation of James Baldwin from Black Power to #BlackLivesMatter

“Sonny’s Blues”, de James Baldwin, e a literatura como canção urgente para o nosso tempo

“…Trabalhos mais recentes, como as análises de Lisa Beard (2017), Eddie Glaude Jr. (2017) e Melanie Walsh (2018), têm associado de modo análogo às percepções de James Baldwin sobre a racialidade à persistência da violência policial nos Estados Unidos estritamente a partir de sua ensaística. Isso pode ser notado também no último documentário sobre o escritor, I Am Not Your Negro (2016), produzido pelo diretor haitiano Raoul Peck.…”

Trends in Baldwin Criticism, 2017–19

“…These Twitter users collectively recirculated Baldwin's words throughout the social media network but in the process they also used Baldwin's rage to forge a network of social, political, and historical connections: between individuals rallying around a common political cause; between the similar fates of different black people under a system of institutionalized racism and state-sanctioned violence; and between multiple moments in American history from the civil rights era of Baldwin's prime to Ferguson on August 9, 2014. 50 serpent which eats up all the others. After the Civil War, America's new vision of itself was no longer to create democracy and moral values for its citizens, but capitalism.…”