American studies:

In 1965, during the struggles for civil rights, James Baldwin echoed
many of
these ideas when he wrote:
It comes as a great shock to discover that the country which
is your
birthplace and to which you owe your life and identity has
not, in its whole
system of reality, evolved any place for you I was taught in
American
history books that Africa had no history and neither did I. I
was a savage
about whom the least said the betterYou belonged where
white people
put you. (Baldwin 1985:404)
Baldwins own writings sought to construct a place in America for the
black man and to defy being positioned by challenging the white
worlds assumptions
(Baldwin 1963:31): the truth about a black man, as a historical entity
and as a human being, has been hidden from him, deliberately and
cruelly; the power of the white
world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white
worlds definitions. (ibid.: 62)
Similarly, the increased political demands for Black Power in the
1960s followed
this argument, claiming that any movement must speak in the tone
of that
community[so that] black people are going to use the words they
want to use
not just the words whites want to hear (Carmichael 1966:5).