1. Stranger in the Village by James Baldwin
"Black people have been experiencing oppression from other ethnic groups, particularity white people for centuries" (Avakian). ... The village that he traveled to had the population of "six hundred people living there and all of them were Catholic" (Baldwin). ... Yet they move with an authority which I shall never have; and they regard me, quite rightly, not only as a stranger in their village but as a suspect late-comer and they cannot be from the point of view of power, strangers anywhere in the world; they have made the modern world, in effect, even if they do not know i...
- Word Count: 1313
- Approx Pages: 5
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate