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The Decline of Empires in James Baldwin’s “No Name in the Street”

While doing research on the massacre of around 200 Algerians in October 1961 and William Gardner Smith’s novel The Stone Face, which concludes with the massacre, I came across James Baldwin’s discussions, specifically in his 1972 book No Name in the Street, on his time in Paris and his interactions with Algerians in France’s capital. I didn’t bring a copy of Baldwin’s book with … Read More The Decline of Empires in James Baldwin’s “No Name in the Street”