RKS Literature: The Happy and Prancing Negroes! (James Baldwin)

“I saw with a particular shock, the root of the despicable and tenacious American folklore concerning the happy, prancing niggers. Some of the people were moving, indeed, and the jukebox was loud; their movements followed the music which their movements had produced; but prancing scarcely described the use of their vigor. Only someone who noContinue reading “RKS Literature: The Happy and Prancing Negroes! (James Baldwin)”