Fiction, The Enemy in the Blanket (1958)
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 18.
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 2.
“The black man wants to be white. The white man slaves to reach a human level.”
Introduction,Page 9
Black Skin, White Masks (1952)
“One South African saying put forward that “the white man has no kin, his kin is money.””
Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), p. 338.
“What country is there for a white man who isn't white?”
"Algren once asked", quoted by Richard Flanagan, 2005.
Nonfiction works
Source: Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
1960s, How Long, Not Long (1965)
Context: If it may be said of the slavery era that the white man took the world and gave the Negro Jesus, then it may be said of the Reconstruction era that the southern aristocracy took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow. He gave him Jim Crow. And when his wrinkled stomach cried out for the food that his empty pockets could not provide, he ate Jim Crow, a psychological bird that told him that no matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man, better than the black man. And he ate Jim Crow. And when his undernourished children cried out for the necessities that his low wages could not provide, he showed them the Jim Crow signs on the buses and in the stores, on the streets and in the public buildings. And his children, too, learned to feed upon Jim Crow, their last outpost of psychological oblivion. Thus, the threat of the free exercise of the ballot by the Negro and the white masses alike resulted in the establishment of a segregated society. They segregated southern money from the poor whites; they segregated southern mores from the rich whites; they segregated southern churches from Christianity; they segregated southern minds from honest thinking; and they segregated the Negro from everything. That’s what happened when the Negro and white masses of the South threatened to unite and build a great society: a society of justice where none would pray upon the weakness of others; a society of plenty where greed and poverty would be done away; a society of brotherhood where every man would respect the dignity and worth of human personality.
49 Themistocles
Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 2.
“Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale.”
Stanza 9
The Cotter's Saturday Night (1786)
