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90
.
  
Ibid., p. 88.

  
91
.
  
“Notes of a Native Son,” op. cit., 88.

  
92
.
  
Ibid., p. 150.

  
93
.
  
Frantz Fanon,
Peau noire, masques blancs
(Paris: Seuil, 1952), 179.

  
94
.
  
“The Fire Next Time,” op. cit., 342.

  
95
.
  
Leeming, op. cit., 121-122.

  
96
.
  
Campbell,
Talking at the Gates
, op. cit., 109.

  
97
.
  
Césaire, op. cit., 22-23.

  
98
.
  
Sheldon Binn, review of
The Fire Next Time
, by James Baldwin,
New York Times
, January 31, 1963.

  
99
.
  
“The Fire Next Time,” op. cit., 340.

100
.
  
Ibid., p. 134-135.

101
.
  
Frantz Fanon,
Les Damnés de la terre
(Paris: Gallimard, “Folio,” 1991), 43.

102
.
  
“The Fire Next Time,” op. cit., 346.

103
.
  
Ibid., p. 135.

104
.
  
Alan Stoskopf, “The Murder of Emmett Till: A Series of Four Lessons,”
https://www.facinghistory.org/foreducators/educator-resources/lessons-and-units/emmett-till-series-four-lessons

105
.
  
Walter Meserve in
The Black American Writer: Vol.II Poetry and Drama,
ed. C.W.E. Bigsby (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1969), as reproduced by Chip Lockwood in “Baldwin's ‘Blues' remain powerful, 37 years later,”
Yale Herald Online,
2001.
http://www.yaleherald.com/archive/xxxi/2001.03.30/ae/p21baldwin.html

106
.
  
“Notes of a Native Son,” op. cit., 49.

107
.
  
Ibid., 49.

108
.
  
James Baldwin, “Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White,”
New York Times
, April 9, 1967.

109
.
  
Ibid.

110
.
  
Ibid.

111
.
  
Ibid.

112
.
  
“Notes of a Native Son,” op. cit., 50.

113
.
  
Ibid., 50.

114
.
  
Budd Schulberg,
La Forêt interdite
: suivi de
L'Atelier d'écriture de Watts
et de
Dialogue en noir et blanc
, (Paris: Rivages Poche, 2004), 280-282. Original American title:
Wind Across the Everglades
.

115
.
  
Ibid., p. 281.

116
.
  
Ibid., p. 283.

117
.
  
Baldwin, “Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White,” op. cit.

118
.
  
Ibid.

120
.
  
Le Nouvel Observateur
, March 25, 2006.

121
.
  
Ibid.

122
.
  
Dominic Thomas,
Black France
, op. cit., 10.

123
.
  
Frantz Fanon,
Peau noire, masques blancs
, op. cit., 185-186.

124
.
  
Leeming op. cit., 77.

125
.
  
Campbell,
Talking at the Gates
, op. cit., 239.

126
.
  
Ibid., p. 240.

127
.
  
Ibid., p. 282.

128
.
  
Ibid., p. 281.

129
.
  
Quincy Troupe,
James Baldwin: The Legacy
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989).

130
.
  
Campbell,
Talking at the Gates
, op. cit., 281.

131
.
  
Pascal Bruckner,
Le Sanglot de l'homme blanc. Tiers-monde, culpabilité, haine de soi
(Paris: Seuil, 1983), and, more recently,
La Tyrannie de la pénitence : essai sur le masochisme occidental
(Paris: Grasset, 2006).

132
.
  
Bruckner, preface to his own book,
Sanglot de l'homme blanc
(Paris: Seuil, “Points,” 2002), iv.

133
.
  
Jean-Paul Sartre, preface to
Damnés de la terre,
by Frantz Fanon (Paris: Gallimard “Folio,” 1991), 42.

134
.
  
Ibid., p. 41.

135
.
  
Achille Mbembe, in an article entitled “Francophonie et politique du monde,” that appeared on the author's website (
www.alainmabanckou.net
), March 24, 2007.

136
.
  
Frantz Fanon,
Peau noire, masques blancs
, op. cit., 186.

137
.
  
“The Fire Next Time,” op. cit., 326.

138
.
  
Albert Memmi,
Portrait du décolonisé arabo-musulman et de quelques autres
(Paris: Gallimard, 2004), 141-142.

139
.
  
Ibid., p. 142.

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