- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- “William Faulkner”
- “Futile Souls Adrift on a Yacht”
- “On William Faulkner’s <i>The Sound and the Fury</i>”
- “Preface” to British edition of <i>Soldiers’ Pay</i>
- Review of <i>Soldiers’ Pay</i>
- “Gentleman from Mississippi”
- Review of <i>As I Lay Dying</i>
- “New Technique in Novel Introduced”
- “Tattered Banners”
- “On <i>The Sound and the Fury</i>: Time in the Work of William Faulkner”
- “Flem Snopes and His Kin”
- “Fiction and Life”
- Journal Entries
- “Mr. Faulkner’s Southern Saga”
- “The Private World of William Faulkner”
- Letter to Edmund Wilson
- “A Man of the South”
- “William Faulkner: The Novel as Form”
- “Faulkner at Stockholm”
- “William Faulkner: An Impression”
- “Faulkner and Desegregation”
- “Best Fiction of 1957”
- “Dark Laughter in the Towers”
- “William Faulkner”
- “That Time and That Wilderness”
- “William Faulkner”
- “Faulkner”
- “Author Gave Life to Fictional County”
- “The Influence of William Faulkner”
- “Faulkner: Past and Future”
- “The Sounds are Furious”
- “The Narrators”
- “Literary Influences”
- “William Faulkner”
- “Emerging as a Writer in Faulkner’s Mississippi”
- “The Three Kings: Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald”
- “Reading Faulkner from a Writer’s Point of View”
- “Faulkner’s Mississippi”
- “The Faulkner Thing”
- “History, Rooted in the Present”
- “On Coming Late to Faulkner”
- “Lee Smith Talks about Southern Writing”
- “Absalom, Absalom!”
- “The Book That Changed My Life”
- “William Faulkner and His Biographers”
- Index
“Faulkner and Desegregation”
“Faulkner and Desegregation”
- Chapter:
- (p.114) “Faulkner and Desegregation”
- Source:
- The Dixie Limited
- Author(s):
James Baldwin
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
This chapter discusses William Faulkner's stand on desegregation in the South. It begins by noting how Faulkner concedes the madness and moral wrongness of the South but at the same time raises it to the level of a mystique which makes it somehow unjust to discuss Southern society in the same terms in which one would discuss any other society. According to Faulkner, “Our position is wrong and untenable, but it is not wise to keep an emotional people of balance.” Thus, if it means anything, can only mean that this “emotional people” have been swept “of balance” by the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation. The chapter also considers Faulkner's threat to leave the “middle of the road” and asks what is the evidence of the struggle he has been carrying on there on behalf of the Negro.
Keywords: desegregation, William Faulkner, South, Supreme Court, segregation, Negro
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- “William Faulkner”
- “Futile Souls Adrift on a Yacht”
- “On William Faulkner’s <i>The Sound and the Fury</i>”
- “Preface” to British edition of <i>Soldiers’ Pay</i>
- Review of <i>Soldiers’ Pay</i>
- “Gentleman from Mississippi”
- Review of <i>As I Lay Dying</i>
- “New Technique in Novel Introduced”
- “Tattered Banners”
- “On <i>The Sound and the Fury</i>: Time in the Work of William Faulkner”
- “Flem Snopes and His Kin”
- “Fiction and Life”
- Journal Entries
- “Mr. Faulkner’s Southern Saga”
- “The Private World of William Faulkner”
- Letter to Edmund Wilson
- “A Man of the South”
- “William Faulkner: The Novel as Form”
- “Faulkner at Stockholm”
- “William Faulkner: An Impression”
- “Faulkner and Desegregation”
- “Best Fiction of 1957”
- “Dark Laughter in the Towers”
- “William Faulkner”
- “That Time and That Wilderness”
- “William Faulkner”
- “Faulkner”
- “Author Gave Life to Fictional County”
- “The Influence of William Faulkner”
- “Faulkner: Past and Future”
- “The Sounds are Furious”
- “The Narrators”
- “Literary Influences”
- “William Faulkner”
- “Emerging as a Writer in Faulkner’s Mississippi”
- “The Three Kings: Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald”
- “Reading Faulkner from a Writer’s Point of View”
- “Faulkner’s Mississippi”
- “The Faulkner Thing”
- “History, Rooted in the Present”
- “On Coming Late to Faulkner”
- “Lee Smith Talks about Southern Writing”
- “Absalom, Absalom!”
- “The Book That Changed My Life”
- “William Faulkner and His Biographers”
- Index
