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Questions: A Letter to My Nephew

Part I: To discuss in the 1st Breakout Room. (Note: I will listen in to your conversations.)

You will have time to answer these in an assignment due tonight by midnight; make sure to add all the names of your team in your Assignment.

1. Race: Most material covered in this class complicates the issue of race and racial identification (there are all types of gradations of skin color, and it is difficult to address issues in a binary way: black and white). This essay/letter, however, uses that dichotomy as a tool?

• How does the notion of age or generations (generational transmission of ideas and experiences) work in this letter?

• How does the notion of class play a role in this letter? Why is it important?

• Does the notion of gender play a role in this letter? Explain.

• How may this letter address one of the main “issues” represented in Michelle Cliff’s “Columba.”

Part II. To discuss in the 2^nd Breakout Room. (Note: I will listen in to your conversations.)

1. Compare your responses to Part I with new people on this team. Add notes to your answers if necessary (for your Assignment).

• In reference to Question 1, Part 1, does Baldwin place blame on the “white man”?  Explain why you said yes, no, or maybe!

• Analyze this quote: “Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of one’s own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man’s world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar, and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations.”

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