Baldwin engages in critical thinking

Baldwin writes of his father, “Well, he is dead, he never saw you, and he had a terrible life; he was defeated long before he died because, at the heart, he really believed what white people said about him.” Which quotation from Du Bois best applies to this quotation?

In operant conditioning the person will continue behavior if rewarded & will cease if punished

What genres does The Fire Next Time engage with? Select all that apply.

When Baldwin describes his audience as innocents, which dictionary definition is most apt?

When Baldwin describes his audience as innocents, which dictionary definition is most apt?

What genres does The Fire Next Time engage with? Select all that apply.

According to From Critical Thinking to Argument critical thinking consists of “searching for hidden assumptions, noticing various facets, unraveling different strands, and evaluating what is most significant” (3). From today’s reading, what are the hidden assumptions that James Baldwin hopes to uncover in The Fire Next Time (1963)?  Use the following passage to construct your answer. Write a one-paragraph response that uses the paraburger format: They have had to believe for many years, and for innumerable reasons, that black men are inferior to white men. Many of them, indeed, know better, but, as you will discover, people find it very difficult to act on what they know. To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. In this case, the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is the loss of their identity. Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. you would be frightened because it is out of the order of nature. Any upheaval in the universe is a terrifying because it is so profoundly attacks one’s sense of one’s own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man’s world as a fixed star, and as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations. (8-9).

Why does Baldwin draw a comparison between the possible fate of African-Americans and those of European Jews during the Holocaust? Select all that apply.

Which of these is not a quality of critical thinkers?