Episode 162: James Baldwin on Race in America (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2017
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On the film I Am Not Your Negro and the essays "Notes of a Native Son" (1955) and The Fire Next Time (1963). With guest Law Ware. Baldwin diagnoses our racism-related psycho-social maladies, but how can we best translate his observations into generally applicable philosophical theory?
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| 0:09.0 | You're listening to The Parsley Xamon Life, a podcast by some guys who are at one point |
| 0:19.6 | to set on doing philosophy for living with them thought better of it. |
| 0:22.2 | Our question for episode 162 is something like, how can we better understand the dynamic |
| 0:26.9 | of race in America and we're drawing on the work of James Baldwin, including the essay |
| 0:30.9 | Notes of a Native Son from 1955, the book The Fire Next Time from 1963, and the new documentary |
| 0:37.2 | featuring the words of James Baldwin called, I'm Not Your Negro, directed by Raoul Peck. |
| 0:41.8 | To get the readings and more information, please check out ParsleyXamonLife.com. |
| 0:45.7 | My name is Mark Linton-Wire in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:48.7 | This is Seth Pasch in in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:51.1 | This is Wes Allwund in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 0:54.2 | This is Dylan Casey in Middleton, Wisconsin. |
| 0:56.7 | This is Lauren Tawair still fighting the power in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. |
| 1:01.8 | Welcome back, Law. |
| 1:02.8 | Good to be here, man. |
| 1:03.8 | So yeah, this was going to be just a little appendix to the previous episode, but as we actually |
| 1:08.0 | started reading Baldwin, we felt we needed to do a full-on episode of him. |
| 1:12.7 | So treat him like we did towards Orwell. |
| 1:15.6 | He's freaking awesome. |
| 1:17.1 | Baldwin is the man. |
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