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November 17, 1962

The New Yorker cover for November 17, 1962

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reflections

Letter from a Region in My Mind

James Baldwin

Reflections, by James Baldwin, from 1962: “Whatever white people do not know about Negroes reveals, precisely and inexorably, what they do not know about themselves.”