![]() ![]() The Black Power Movement dominated the integrationist approaches of figures like Martin Luther King Jr. New activists and social critics came with them, their work perceived as closer to the pulse of time. A new wave of writers and literary styles arrived in the late 60s and 70s. Towards the end of that decade, however, his success slowly waned. ![]() James Baldwin was one of the central voices of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Not surprisingly, then, love is also central to my analysis of If Beale Street Could Talk. Love, its absence, and its absolute necessity for us, individually and collectively, is the fundamental theme of James Baldwin’s work. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there. I guess it can’t be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they’re making love. ![]()
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