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S'està carregant… The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in Americade Nicholas Buccola
   Cap No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.  Mark_Feltskog | Dec 23, 2023 |   The debate was 65 years ago, but is currently applicable. The reader only needs to use the current expression “other” for “Negro”. (  ) grimmerlaw | Jul 11, 2021 | Nicholas Buccola does a good job of eschewing simple conclusions about the significance of the debate itself, and instead showing how it fits within the overall intellectual development of the two men. His editorialising on the whole is minimal, in fact, although it's easy for the reader draw connections between many of the debates and attitudes of the 1960s and those of the present day. While I'm sure the patrician Buckley would be horrified at being compared to many of the prominent figures of the U.S. Republican Party in the 2020s, it's clear how he is their ancestor: skilled at political strategy, perhaps, but no true intellectual heft; willing to make "a deal with the devil of white supremacy", as Buccola puts it, in return for power. A worthwhile read, particularly if you have an interested in the history of Civil Rights or of American conservatism. (  ) siriaeve | Mar 18, 2021 | 2. On Page 8, Buccola talks about Buckley growing up in a house with over 100 rooms. But a May 24, 1981, New York Times article on an estate auction at Buckley's boyhood home says that the house had 30 rooms. cpg | Aug 25, 2020 | ) annbury | Apr 12, 2020 | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
"In February 1965, novelist and 'poet of the Black Freedom Struggle' James Baldwin and political commentator and father of the modern American conservative movement William F. Buckley met in Cambridge Union to face-off in a televised debate. The topic was 'The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro.' Buccola uses this momentous encounter as a lens through which to deepen our understanding of two of the most important public intellectuals in twentieth century American thought. The book begins by providing intellectual biographies of each debater. As Buckley reflected on the civil rights movement, he did so from the perspective of someone who thought the dominant norms and institutions in the United States were working quite well for most people and that they would eventually work well for African-Americans. From such a perspective, any ideology, personality, or movement that seems to threaten those dominant norms and institutions must be deemed a threat. Baldwin could not bring himself to adopt such a bird's eye point of view. Instead, he focused on the 'inner lives' of those involved on all sides of the struggle. Imagine what it must be like, he told the audience at Cambridge, to have the sense that your country has not 'pledged its allegiance to you?' Buccola weaves the intellectual biographies of these two larger-than-life personalities and their fabled debate with the dramatic history of the civil rights movement that includes a supporting cast of such figures as Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Lorraine Hansberry, and George Wallace. Buccola shows that the subject of their debate continues to have resonance in our own time as the social mobility of blacks remains limited and racial inequality persists"-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Along with its timeliness, this book is a masterful synthesis of several complicated strands of United States intellectual history. Mr. Buccola's analysis not only provides context for the contemporaneous discourse in the period of U.S. history it covers but also cogently uses that context to expose how this nation's racist past--and the ideology that supported it--now circumscribes its racist present.
Very highly recommended.