Comparison of Baldwin and Conley
Although writers of different periods with different experiences, both James Baldwin and Dalton Conley wrote helpful and informative novels which both express the hardships of oppression, racism, and segregation. Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time characterizes the isolationism that people of color are subjects of by showing that colored people are not accepted in the 1960s society. Conley’s Honky illustrates the isolationism that he as a white person feels while living in a largely poor black and Hispanic neighborhood in the 1960s and 70s. However, while Baldwin believes and shows that most of white America commits the “crime of innocence” by which he means being oblivious to the reality that there is segregation, racism, and hatred, Conley shows by living in a neighborhood as the sole white family that most of white America does not commit the crime of innocence and simply sees other races as individuals instead of the labels that society has given us. Baldwin delivers the point that white America cannot escape the crime of unawareness to justify the biased society that we live in whereas Conley indirectly shows that the unawareness that he displays is not a crime and should not be considered one.
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