Title: White on Black
Review: Very few white American writers can deal with the black experience in America without being patronizing, mawkish or subtly racist. This writer does Malcolm X with sympathy, empathy, admiration and originality. While Malcolm X's horrendous childhood is fully set out, Baker never lays it on too thick or loses respect for his characters. Other great characters are Elijah Muhammed and a light skinned preacher of a black church who finds his privileged bourgeois upbringing a real handicap. This is a terrific book.
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