![]() ![]() In both the opening letter (“My Dungeon Shook”) and the subsequent essay (“Down At The Cross”), the initiations of young people into the country’s previously-established racial animosities and plights demonstrate the importance of being aware-and in control-of the stories people tell themselves about who they are and what they believe. Concerning himself with how these longstanding beliefs about power are wrought, Baldwin demonstrates that parents (including black parents) ultimately teach their children a model of inequity from a young age, which sets the stage for the ongoing disenfranchisement of African-Americans. ![]() Baldwin makes it clear that norms surrounding authority-and the narratives that Americans of all races perpetuate regarding its influence-sustain a pattern of black oppression in the United States. The Fire Next Time examines race relations in America by interrogating the various power dynamics at play between white and black citizens. ![]()
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