James Baldwin's writing certainly is "the product of a period and locale in which white supremacy was more or less unquestioned by a large proportion of the Eng

James Baldwin's writing certainly is "the product of a period and locale in which white supremacy was more or less unquestioned by a large proportion of the English-speaking population." Do you think it is otherwise? I am not dismissing the work, I am looking at its context. White supremacy is more than klan rallies in Alabama. It was a major part of thinking and writing in the US and English-speaking world in general for a long time, a mindset and set of assumptions and lessons that changed how everyone did pretty much everything. It's hard to imagine any major piece media emerging from the 19th-20th centuries that does not bear the mark of white supremacy in one form or another.