Problem
1. What are some specific examples of the effects of racism on the personalities of James Baldwin and his father in "Notes of a Native Son?" Support your answer with quotations and examples from the essay.
2. Consider "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" as a counterargument to James Baldwin's ideas about race in "Notes of a Native Son." Do you think Zora Neale Hurston would include James Baldwin in what she calls "the sobbing school of Negrohood" (Hurston 189, Paragraph 6)? Why or why not? How might James Baldwin answer Zora Neale Hurston's counterargument? Support your answer with quotations and examples from the essays.