My Childhood: James Baldwin's Harlem
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Uses narration by James Baldwin to present the poverty and despair of his childhood days in Harlem which led him to despise both black and white people. Depicts the decaying buildings, people without work, and a bitter father who hated white people. Recounts that church gave Baldwin's father a way of retaliating against the whites and that school and literature provided young James with a means of escape from a despairing world and his black society.
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, Uses narration by James Baldwin to present the poverty and despair of his childhood days in Harlem which led him to despise both black and white people. Depicts the decaying buildings, people without work, and a bitter father who hated white people. Recounts that church gave Baldwin's father a way of retaliating against the whites and that school and literature provided young James with a means of escape from a despairing world and his black society.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.
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