Stranger in the Village

Question 2:

I don't know who E. Franklin Frazier is. James Baldwin created insiders, outsider, strangers, and companions because it's like he took both sides of discrimination. He takes the psychological side of the white man, "The idea of white supremacy rests simply on the fact that white men are the creators of civilization, all previous civilizations are simply 'contributions,' and are therefore civilization's guardians and defenders. Thus it was impossible for Americans to accept the black man as one of themselves, for to do so was to jeopardize their status as white men." This quote shows how and why some acted the way the did, the strangers of another civilization.

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