James Baldwin on being Black in America | CBC Canada Interview | Dec. 11, 1960
Channel: Emersonian Eye
Date: 2020-09-29

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/author-james-baldwin-on-being-black-in-america
0:00 Integration is not simply Southern problem- national, historical legacy
1:33 Southern roots of Black education, vs North
2:43 Northern (New York) vs Southern (Birmingham) segregation, 'Almost anywhere'
4:15 In spite progress -barriers to southern integration, and crisis of 'Who are they?'
5:58 White man's image of the Negro, "...but it wasn't me. I was not a Man'
8:36 'The question is why you haven't' given us equality; flaw in help offered to Blacks
10:44 Resenting the assumption that the white American has 'something I want'.
12:23 Situations change, NAACP helps, but does not address core issue
13:35 Media stereotypes and role models, within the psychological-emotional framework
15:38 Black self-representation and identity, divergent from the white American image
18:11 The hypothetical white liberal
19:21 Threat to the American personality
21:09 Black American used as base to compare upward success and morality against
22:10 Deep emotional and moral roots of problem, and worst part of being Black (crutch)
24:53 Neither pessimistic nor bitter about the future
26:07 Problem must be resolved- pressures too great for 'uneasy truce'

Transcript:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LhbrdSCdqHbAQHM9l8v96S2B0zDQYkHtEMYbhGnzXPQ/edit?usp=sharing

Medium: Television
Broadcast Date: Dec. 11, 1960
Program: Encounter
Host: Nathan Cohen
Guest: James Baldwin
Duration: 27:15